Product Description

Applying twenty-first century analytical and quantitative ways of thinking about forest resource management problems . . . Now available from Waveland Press, the fourth edition of Forest Management—revised significantly from previous, successful editions—offers authoritative, up-to-date coverage of broad-scope concepts and ideas for those entering the fields of forest management, forest economics, and forest ecology. Viewed as large integrated ecosystems that are often owned and managed by multiple landowners, forests continue to be at the center of debates involving global warming and the sustaining of human populations. Because long-term ecological outcomes of forest management activities continue to be of heightened concern to citizens, interest groups, and regulators, the comprehensive fourth edition recognizes the scope of ecological, economic, and social outcomes from the management and use of forest lands. It provides future decision makers and stakeholders with contemporary methods to make quantitative estimates of the consequences of implementing alternative management or policy scenarios for forests. Available on the authors’ Web site are useful databases, files, and worksheets used to generate, solve, and report solutions to problems of forest management. Outstanding features and coverage! 1) includes greatly expanded exposition of the definition, measurement, and practical application of sustainability and sustained yield concepts; 2) stresses the critical role of comprehensive silvicultural prescriptions and their spatial assignment to provide for a multitude of forest outcomes, including timber, wildlife, and recreation within sustainable ecosystems; 3) provides an introduction to the concepts, methods, and applications of explicit spatial analysis of forest tracts, watersheds, and ecological units using new heuristic techniques, and illustrates the techniques using teaching models and data sets; and 4) offers examples and problems to illustrate analyses presented in the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #832109 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 816 pages

From the Publisher
Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Miller, Urban Forestry: Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577665106); Nyland, Silviculture: Concepts and Applications, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577665274); and Sharpe et al., Introduction to Forests and Renewable Resources, Seventh Edition (ISBN 9781577666288).

Customer Reviews

Forest Management Textbook
I've used this as a textbook in a class on Forest Management. The book covers most topics in great detail, a little too verbose for undergraduate students, but it serves as a great reference after they graduate. If anything it is a little weak on valuation, but strong on modern methods of planning. It is not out of date as long as you supplement it with current developments.

technically wonderful
I bought this book for use in a master's class in resource managment. It is very technical and involves a lot of math.