Sustainable Forestry : From Monitoring and Modelling to Knowledge Management and Policy Science

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Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Overview; Part I. Science and Policy; 1 Science is Endogenous to Sustainable Forestry - Implications for Scientists and Policymakers; 2 Will Linking Science to Policy Lead to Sustainable Forestry? Lessons from the Federal Forests of the United States; 3 Participation as a New Mode of Governance? Scientists and Policymakers Linked in a Double Spiral; 4 The European Union Sustainable Forest Management and Climate Change Mitigation Policies from a Transition Country's Perspective

5 Application of Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Resource Management in the United States6 Indicators for Biodiversity of Tropical Forests: Problems and Solutions; 7 Science-Policy Consultation as Boundary Spanning: the Interaction of Science and Politics in Two US Bioregional Assessments; 8 Cluster Organization in Forestry: Supporting Information and Knowledge Transfer in the Practice, Science and Policy of Sustainable Forest Management; 9 Modelling Public Support for Wildland Fire Policy; 10 Analysing Institutions and Public Perspectives to Identify the Future of British Forests

11 Economic Conservation - Hill Holt Wood: the Three Legs of Sustainability in PracticePart II. Inventory and Monitoring; 12 Measuring Sustainability Using the US Forest Inventory and Analysis Program; 13 Vegetation Diversity Assessment in Southern Belgium's Permanent Forest Inventory; 14 PractiSFM - an Operational Multi-resource Inventory Protocol for Sustainable Forest Management; 15 The Importance of Forest Stand-level Inventory to Sustain Multiple Forest Values in the Presence of Endangered Species; 16 Forest Land Change Assessment by Continuous Inventory

17 A Study on Tree Colonization of Abandoned Land in the Italian Alps: Extent and Some Characteristics of New Forest Stands in Trentino18 Using Spatial Statistics to Improve the Primary Forestry Supply Chain; 19 Evaluation of Commercial Airborne LiDAR and SAR Products to Estimate Top Height and Associated Parameters in Production Forests in Britain; Part III. Statistics and Modelling; 20 Potential Contributions of Statistics and Modelling to Sustainable Forest Management: Review and Synthesis; 21 Modelling Forest Ecosystems: the Edinburgh Forest Model

Part IV. Information and Knowledge Management22 Information and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Forestry; 23 Integrating the DPSIR Approach and the Analytic Network Process for the Assessment of Forest Management Strategies; 24 Establishment Management Information System (EMIS): Delivering Good Practice Advice on Tree Establishment in the Uplands of Britain; 25 On Chatbots and Avatars - the Virtual Forester as a Guide to Knowledge about Sustainable Forest Management; 26 Information and Knowledge Management in Support of Sustainable Forestry: a Review

27 How should We Manage Knowledge Ecosystems? Using Adaptive Knowledge Management

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