Forests and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Innes, John(Editor);Nikolakis, William(Editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Series: Earthscan Forest Library
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests. The work has been developed by the "Resources for the Future" Task Force for the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).

Four key themes are addressed: the effect of globalization on forests (including future trade flows); plantations as the primary source of forest products and its consequences, including plant breeding and forest health; the effect of new products such as bio-products and markets on forests; and the emergence of forest ecosystem services and their impact on the landscape and human communities. These four themes are examined in detail to map out the impacts of these trends for forests throughout the world and at multiple scales, and how forest research needs to be adapted to address these trends. Overall, the volume provides a major synthesis of current thinking and knowledge on the topic for advanced students, as well as policy-makers and professionals in the forest sector.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 6
Copyright Page......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Author biographies......Page 12
1 Resources for the future......Page 14
2 Forces shaping the globe’s forests and forest use......Page 20
3 Thoughts on transforming the forest sector: the potential (and reality) of the bio-economy......Page 38
4 Globalization and its implications to forest health......Page 49
5 The consumer-country response to illegal logging and the international trade in illegal timber......Page 61
6 Voluntary zero net deforestation: the implications of demand-side retail sustainability for global forests......Page 78
7 IKEA: a furniture company's view on wood......Page 90
8 Roots of recognition and contested claims: opportunities and challenges for pro-community forest tenure reform since 2002......Page 100
9 Future directions for plantations: investment options and product markets......Page 119
10 New Generation Plantations: what future role towards sustainability?......Page 132
11 Commercialization of forestry genetic research: from promise to practice......Page 143
12 Can European forests meet the demands of the bio-economy in the future? Wood supply alongside environmental services......Page 166
13 Bamboo and rattan production and the implications of globalization......Page 179
14 What is needed to make markets for forest ecosystem services a reality?......Page 198
15 Lessons in the design of payments for environmental services: theory and experience......Page 215
Index......Page 228