Sustainable Forests

This four-volume set is edited by leading experts on the evolving role of forests in providing raw materials and environmental services to meet society’s changing needs. It brings together in one collection the major works that have helped to shape thinking on forests as a key sustainable resource. The collection includes classic papers but also assembles more recent publications at the cutting edge of thinking on forests and their sustainable use. The set includes a general introduction and each volume is introduced by a new overview essay, placing the selected materials in context. The breadth of subject matter is considerable, ranging from the management and conservation of forest landscapes, soils, hydrology and tree-atmosphere relations, socio-economic aspects, including the livelihoods of indigenous people, policy and economics, to contemporary issues such as ecosystem services and climate change. Volume I covers forest conservation, now recognized as crucial to the mitigation of climate change, and its overall implications for forest landscapes, as well as forest ecology and biodiversity conservation within forests. Volume II addresses the more technical biological, physical, and chemical aspects of trees and forests and their environment, including physiological aspects and plant-atmosphere, soil and water relationships. Volume III considers the livelihoods of people working or living in forests, including non-timber forest products, rights and tenure and community forestry, as well as on-farm forestry and urban forestry. The final volume provides an overview of policy, governance, legal, and economic aspects of forests and forest management, including the important topics of decentralization and the ownership of forests. The set provides students and teachers, confronted with thousands of journal articles, book chapters and grey literature, with a ready-made selection of—and commentary on—the most important key writings on sustainable forests. It is an essential reference for libraries concerned with geography, environmental studies, ecology, natural resource management, and forestry.

Volume I: Forests, Landscapes, and Conservation Part 1: Overview and Contexts 1. D. B. Lindenmayer, ‘Forest Wildlife Management and Conservation’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009, 1162, 284–310. 2. A. Balmford, K. J. Gaston, S. Blyth, A. James, and V. Kapos, ‘Global Variation in Terrestrial Conservation Costs, Conservation Benefits, and Unmet Conservation Needs’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003, 100, 1046–50. 3. T. K. Rudel, O. T. Coomes, E. Moran, F. Achard, A. Angelsen, J. Xu, and E. Lambin, ‘Forest Transitions: Towards a Global Understanding of Land Use Change’, Global Environmental Change, 2005, 15, 23–31. 4. M. B. Bush and M. R. Silman, ‘Amazonian Exploitation Revisited: Ecological Asymmetry and the Policy Pendulum’, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2007, 5, 457–65. Part 2: History and Modern Classics 5. S. E. Kingsland, ‘Creating a Science of Nature Reserve Design: Perspectives from History’, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 2002, 7, 61–9. 6. C. Murcia, ‘Edge Effects in Fragmented Forests: Implications for Conservation’, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 1995, 10, 58–62. 7. I. M. Turner and R. T. Corlett, ‘The Conservation Value of Small, Isolated Fragments of Lowland Tropical Rain Forest’, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 1996, 11, 330–3. 8. F. H. J. Crome, ‘Researching Tropical Forest Fragmentation: Shall We Keep on Doing What We’re Doing?’, in William F. Laurence and Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr. (eds.), Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities (University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 485–501. Part 3: Beyond Pristine 9. A. D. Manning, P. Gibbons, and D. B. Lindenmayer. ‘Scattered Trees: A Complementary Strategy for Facilitating Adaptive Responses to Climate Change in Modified Landscapes?’, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2009, 46, 915–19. 10. R. L. Chazdon, C. A. Peres, D. Dent, D. Sheil, A. E. Lugo, D. Lamb, N. E. Stork, and S. Miller, ‘The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests’, Conservation Biology, 2009, 23, 6, 1406–17. 11. C. J. Clark, J. R. Poulsen, R. Malonga, and P. W. Elkan, Jr. ‘Logging Concessions Can Extend the Conservation Estate for Central African Tropical Forests’, Conservation Biology, 2009, 23, 1281–93. 12. E. G. Brockerhoff, H. Jactel, J. A. Parrotta, C. P. Quine, and J. Sayer, ‘Plantation Forests and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity?’, Biodiversity and Conservation, 2008, 17, 925–51. 13. S. A. Bhagwat, C. G. Kushalappa, P. H. Williams, and N. D. Brown, ‘A Landscape Approach to Biodiversity Conservation of Sacred Groves in the Western Ghats of India’, Conservation Biology, 2005, 19, 1853–62. 14. R. J. Hobbs, S. Arico, J. Aronson, J. S. Baron, P. Bridgewater, V. A.Cramer, P. R. Epstein, J. J. Ewel, C. A. Klink, A. E. Lugo, D. Norton, D. Ojima, D. M. Richardson, E. W. Sanderson, F. Valladares, M. Vila, R. Zamora, and M. Zobel, ‘Novel Ecosystems: Theoretical and Management Aspects of the New Ecological World Order’, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2006, 15, 1–7. 15. A. E. Lugo, ‘The Emerging Era of Novel Tropical Forests’, Biotropica, 2009, 41, 5, 589–91. Part 4: Concerning Methods 16. T. A. Gardner, J. Barlow, I. S. Araujo, T. C. Ávila-Pires, A. B. Bonaldo, J. E. Costa, M. C. Esposito, L. V. Ferreira, J. Hawes, M. I. M. Hernandez, M. S. Hoogmoed, R. N. Leite, N. F. Lo-Man-Hung, J. R. Malcolm, M. B. Martins, L. A. M. Mestre, R. Miranda-Santos, W. L. Overal, L. Parry, S. L. Peters, M. A. Ribeiro Jr., M. N. F. Da Silva, C. Da Silva Motta, and C. A. Peres, ‘The Cost-effectiveness of Biodiversity Surveys in Tropical Forests’, Ecology Letters, 2008, 11, 139–50. 17. G. Rambaldi, ‘Who Owns the Map Legend?’, Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, 2005, 17, 1, 5–13. 18. R. DeFries, F. Rovero, P. Wright, J. Ahumada, S. Andelman, K. Brandon, J. Dempewolf, A. Hansen, J. Hewson, and J. Liu, ‘From Plot to Landscape Scale: Linking Tropical Biodiversity Measurements Across Spatial Scales’, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2009, 8, 153–60. Part 5: Governance and Oversight 19. S. J. Wright, G. A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, C. Portillo-Quintero, and D. Davies, ‘Poverty and Corruption Compromise Tropical Forest Reserves’, Ecological Applications, 2007, 17, 1259–66. 20. D. Nepstad, S. Schwartzman, B. Bamberger, M. Santilli, D. Ray, P. Schlesinger, P. Lefebvre, A. Alencar, E. Prinz, G. Fiske, and A. Rolla, ‘Inhibition of Amazon Deforestation and Fire by Parks and Indigenous Lands’, Conservation Biology, 2006, 20, 65–73. 21. D. B. Bray, E. A. Ellis, N. Armijo-Canto, and C. T. Beck, ‘The Institutional Drivers of Sustainable Landscapes: A Case Study of the "Mayan Zone" in Quintana Roo, Mexico’, Land Use Policy, 2004, 21, 333–46. Part 6: Taking Stock 22. W. F. Laurance, ‘Have We Overstated the Tropical Biodiversity Crisis?’, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2007, 22, 65–70. 23. T. M. Brooks, S. J. Wright, and D. Sheil, ‘Evaluating the Success of Conservation Actions in Safeguarding Tropical Forest Biodiversity’, Conservation Biology, 2009, 23, 6, 1448–57. 24. D. Sheil and D. Murdiyarso, ‘How Forests Attract Rain: An Examination of a New Hypothesis’, Bioscience, 2009, 59, 341–7. Part 7: The Road Ahead 25. J. Sayer, G. Bull, and C. Elliott, ‘Mediating Forest Transitions: "Grand Design" or "Muddling Through"?’, Conservation and Society, 2008, 6, 4, 320–7. 26. K. A. Wilson, E. Meijaard, S. Drummond, H. S. Grantham, L. Boitani, G. Catullo, L. Christie, R. Dennis, I. Dutton, A. Falcucci, L. Maiorano, H. P. Possingham, C. Rondinini, W. R. Turner, O. Venter, and M. Watts, ‘Conserving Biodiversity in Production Landscapes’, Ecological Applications, 2010, 20, 1721–32. 27. D. Lindenmayer, R. J. Hobbs, R. Montague-Drake, J. Alexandra, A. Bennett, M. Burgman, P. Cale, A. Calhoun, V. Cramer, P. Cullen, D. Driscoll, L. Fahrig, J. Fischer, J. Franklin, Y. Haila, M. Hunter, P. Gibbons, S. Lake, G. Luck, C. MacGregor, S. McIntyre, R. M. Nally, A. Manning, J. Miller, H. Mooney, R. Noss, H. Possingham, D. Saunders, F. Schmiegelow, M. Scott, D. Simberloff, T. Sisk, G. Tabor, B. Walker, J. Wiens, J. Woinarski, and E. Zavaleta, ‘A Checklist for Ecological Management of Landscapes for Conservation’, Ecology Letters, 2008, 11, 78–91. Volume II: Forests and the Biological, Chemical, and Physical Environment Part 1: Forest and Tree Properties 28. P. G. Jarvis and D. G. 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Lynch (eds.), Forestry and Climate Change: Proceedings of the OECD Wilton Park Conference 2006 (CABI, 2007), pp. 60–72. Part 2: Radiation, Energy, and Production 34. S. Linder, ‘Potential and Actual Production in Australian Forest Stands’, in J. J. Landsberg and W. Parsons (eds.), Research for Forest Management (CSIRO, 1985), pp. 11–35. 35. P. G. Jarvis and J. W. Leverenz, ‘Productivity of Temperate, Deciduous and Evergreen Forests’, in O. L. Lange, P. S. Nobel, C. B. Osmond, and H. Ziegler (eds.), Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology (Physiological Plant Ecology IV,

Jeffrey Sayer is Professor of Conservation and Development at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia and a member of the Independent Science and Partnership Council of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research. He was founding Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia. Neil Byron is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra in Australia. He was Commissioner of Australia's Productivity Commission with special responsibility for Environment and Natural Resources from 1998-2009, and before that Assistant Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research in Indonesia. Gillian Petrokofsky is the former Head of the Forestry section at CAB International and Editor of Forest Products Abstracts, and is now at the Biodiversity Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Associate Editors: Bas Arts is a Professor in the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands. Paul Jarvis was Emeritus Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Margaret Shannon is Coordinator of the European Forest Institute Program on Forest Policy and Economics Education and Research in Southeast Europe, based in Croatia. She is also a Professor at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, USA, and Professor in Honor, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. Douglas Sheil is currently a Professor in the School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Australia. He has been Director of the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda and is also a Senior Research Associate with the Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR), Indonesia. Victor K. Teplyakov is a Professor in the Department of Forest Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.