Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Forestry

1. Introduction: Shaping the Future with Forests  Part 1. Sustainable Forestry Foundations and Futures  2.  Sustainable Forestry Paradigms, Criteria, and Indicators: A History   3.  Sustainability Beyond Western Paradigms   4.  Shifts in Global Forest Types   5.  Forest Conservation Across Scales   Part 2. Assessing Sustainability in Forest Landscapes  6.  Managing Forests Under Increasing Complexity: How forest models can guide us towards sustainability   7.  Defining Forest Monitoring to Produce Biodiversity Indicators and Assessment: A rationale   8.  Remote Sensing for Forest Structure and Ecological Integrity   9.  The Role of Dendrochronology in Assessing Forest Health and Sustainability: Reconstructing the past to manage the future   10.  Economics of Sustainable Forestry   Part 3.  Policy and Legal Frameworks for Forest Sustainability   11.  Institutional Dimensions of Forest Sustainability   12.  Forest Certification for Sustainability  13.  Trade Policy as a Tool for Forest Sustainability   14.  Global Agreements and Multilateral Cooperation for Forest Conservation   Part 4. Forests and Ecosystem Services  15.  Carbon Sequestration by Forests   16.   Watershed Dynamics and Forest Ecosystem Services   17.   Economic Assessments of Ecosystem Services from Large Forested Landscapes for Urban Populations   18.  Role of Urban Forestry in future sustainability from an African Perspective: With Special reference to Niger   19.  Non-Timber Forest Products in Nepal: Prospects for Rural Livelihoods and Economic Development   20.  Forests and Food Security  21.  Forests as Social Safety Nets   22.  Relational Values and Sustainable Forestry  Part 5. Expanding Forestry Actors  23.  Old wine in a new bottle: Scientific Forestry Narratives and Exclusions in the Community Forestry of Nepal   24.  Knowledge Co-production at the Research–Practice Interface: Learning from Urban Forestry  25.  Indigenous Forestry: Weaving Survival, Resilience, Self-Determination, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge   26.  The Sacred Groves of India: Sustaining Forests and Biodiversity  27.  Rooted Inequalities in Forest Education: Insights from a Students’ Perspective   Part 6. Critical Challenges to Sustaining Forests    28.  Explaining the emergence of deforestation frontiers   29.  Wildland Fire  30.  Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka: The need to address the drivers of conflict  31.  Emergent forest diseases under global change   32.  Adapting Forests to Climate Change    Part 7: Building Forests for the Future   33.   Restoring degraded forests in the central Himalayas   34.   Genetics in Practice for Reforestation and Ecological Restoration: Concepts, Guidelines, and Case Studies   35.  Industrial Agroforestry and Farm-Forestry in India   36.  The Science and Practice of Sustainable Nurseries and Plantations   37.  Reduced Impact Logging   38.  Regenerative Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution for Conserving Forest Ecosystems

Biography

Alark Saxena is an Associate Professor of Forestry in the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University, USA.

Alder Keleman Saxena is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, USA.

Jeffrey Chow is a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute for Public Policy, Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.

Josep Maria Serra Diaz is the Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Spain.