Alice Muchugi & Sammy Muraguri 
Instant Insights: Sustainable tropical forest management [EPUB ebook] 

• Chapter 1 – An overview of tropical forest formations: Alice Muchugi, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Kenya; Sammy Muraguri, Kunming Institute of Botany, China; Hesti L. Tata, Forest Research & Development Centre, Indonesia; Jürgen Blaser, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; and Patrick D. Hardcastle, Forestry Development Specialist, UK;
  
  
  
  • 1 Introduction
  
  
  • 2 The tropics: defining the enabling conditions for tropical forests
  
  
  • 3 Classifying tropical forest formations
  
  
  • 4 Structure and diversity of tropical forest ecosystems
  
  
  • 5 Conclusion
  
  
  • 6 References
  
  


• Chapter 2 – Defining sustainable forest management (SFM) in the tropics: Francis E. Putz, University of Florida-Gainesville, USA; and Ian D. Thompson, Thompson Forest Ltd.-Kelowna, Canada;
  
  
  
  • 1 Introduction
  
  
  • 2 Evolving concepts of sustainability
  
  
  • 3 Appropriate scales for assessment of SFM
  
  
  • 4 SFM trade-offs at different scales
  
  
  • 5 Defining terms in SFM
  
  
  • 6 Land-use types in SFM
  
  
  • 7 Challenges for SFM in the tropics
  
  
  • 8 Ways forward
  
  
  • 9 References
  
  


• Chapter 3 – Ecosystem services delivered by tropical forests: regulating services of tropical forests for climate and hydrological cycles: Oliver Gardi, Bern University of Applied Sciences and School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Switzerland;
  
  
  
  • 1 Introduction
  
  
  • 2 Forest-climate interactions
  
  
  • 3 Forests in the carbon cycle
  
  
  • 4 Climate change mitigation in the forestry and timber sector
  
  
  • 5 Forests in the water cycle (regional scale)
  
  
  • 6 Summary and future trends
  
  
  • 7 Where to look for further information
  
  
  • 8 References
  
  


• Chapter 4 – Forest landscape restoration (FLR) of tropical forests: Stephanie Mansourian, Mansourian.org/University of Geneva, Switzerland/IUFRO, Austria;
  
  
  
  • 1 Introduction
  
  
  • 2 Implementing forest landscape restoration (FLR)
  
  
  • 3 Case studies
  
  
  • 4 Challenges and opportunities in taking FLR forward
  
  
  • 5 Conclusion
  
  
  • 6 Where to look for further information
  
  
  • 7 References
  
  


• Chapter 5 – Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests: overview and conclusions: Jürgen Blaser, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; Patrick D. Hardcastle, Forestry Development Specialist, UK; and Gillian Petrokofsky, University of Oxford, UK;
  
  
  
  • 1 Introduction: sustainable forest management (SFM)
  
  
  • 2 Importance of tropical forest ecology
  
  
  • 3 Forests, climate and climate change
  
  
  • 4 Forest loss and degradation
  
  
  • 5 Forest products and ecological services
  
  
  • 6 Community-based forest management (CBFM) and SFM
  
  
  • 7 SFM and the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs)
  
  
  • 8 Wood products, plantations and SFM
  
  
  • 9 Monitoring and measuring for SFM
  
  
  • 10 Shifting cultivation and SFM
  
  
  • 11 Forest landscape restoration (FLR)
  
  
  • 12 SFM in major tropical regions
  
  
  • 13 Conclusions
  
  
  • 14 References
  
  

Dr Jürgen Blaser is Professor of International Forestry and Climate Change at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. Professor Blaser is a former Chair of the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) and former Senior Forestry Advisor at the World Bank.