关键词:
forest restoration
climate change adaptation
forest zoning
ecosystem stewardship
Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
conservation planning
biodiversity protection
forest disturbances
Plant Sciences and Forestry
complex adaptive systems
sustainable forest management
ecological forestry
ISBN:
(数字)9780191871368 ISBN:
(纸本)9780198832997
摘要:
Forests long have been important to humanity and other species of the planet, providing timber and non-timber resources, innumerable ecosystem services, and supporting biological diversity. The technical determination of requirements for a sustained yield of timber was a revolutionary achievement, which has since been extended to the sustainability of other aspects of forests and diverse human endeavors. Yet the expectations of stasis and constancy make sustainability difficult in a world undergoing rapid changes, necessitating a paradigm shift that accommodates uncertainty and embraces change. Resilience theory and the principles of complex adaptive systems provide a foundation for a resilient and adaptive approach to forest stewardship. The many services, uses, values, and expectations of forest often conflict with each other, requiring bundling into protection, multi-purpose, and timber zones. Applying resistance, recovery, adjustment, reconfiguration, or transformation strategies for resilient forest management is a place-based exercise, addressing local attributes, vulnerabilities, and priorities. Climate change and its stimulation of forest disturbances are priority challenges for which resilience planning and management is needed. The diversity, disturbance regimes, biological legacies, and spatial patterns of natural forests inspire an ecological forestry approach that has the greatest potential for supporting forest resilience, and ultimately the resilience of forest enterprises and forest communities. A long history of deforestation and forest degradation often requires forest restoration to make forests more resilient. With many unknowns and much uncertainty, resilient forest management takes place in an adaptive management context. Resilient forest stewardship is ultimately about people management and must take place within a supportive governance and sociocultural framework.