Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes 1st Edition by Simon Bell ISBN 0419256806 9780419256809

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ISBN 10: 0419256806 
ISBN 13: 9780419256809
Author: Simon Bell

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes 1st Table of contents:

Part 1 Key concepts for forest design
Chapter 1 Planning and forest design
Introduction
Traditional forest planning
Silvicultural forest planning
Land-use planning and forestry
Multiple use planning
Harvest planning
Ecological forest planning
Sustainability at the forest landscape level
Forest design and forest planning
Conclusions
Chapter 2 Landscape ecology, conservation biology and ecological forestry
Introduction
Key concepts from landscape ecology, conservation biology and ecological forestry
Case study: Taurene in Latvia
Conclusions
Chapter 3 Key principles of forest aesthetics
Introduction
The nature of forest aesthetics
Approaches to visual aesthetics in forest landscapes
Forest landscape patterns
Visual design principles
Landscape character analysis
Landscape sensitivity
Managing landscape change
Forest aesthetics and ecology
Conclusions
Chapter 4 Community participation in forest design
Introduction
Principles of participation
What exactly is “participation”?
Levels of involvement
Approaches to participation
Examples of participation
Other methods of participation
Problems of participatory planning
Conclusions
Part II The process, techniques and implementation of forest design
Chapter 5 The process of forest design
Introduction
Managing the design process
The steps of the process
3. Ecological information
Conclusions
Chapter 6 Design and visualisation techniques
Introduction
Basic materials and equipment
Inventory information
Photography
Geographic information systems
Design methods
Graphic presentations
Graphic techniques
Virtual reality
Forest ecosystem modelling
Conclusions
Chapter 7 From design to implementation
Introduction
How does the design meet the objectives?
Restoration Priority Areas for Zena Property
Testing the environmental impact of a forest design
Implementation of a forest ecosystem design
Monitoring and adaptive management
Conclusions
Part III Forest design application
Chapter 8 Forest design and ecosystem restoration
Introduction
What do we mean by the term natural?
The process of forest restoration design
Restoration of deforested landscapes
Case study: Restoration of native pine forest at Glen Affric in Scotland
Redesign of fragmented forests
Case study: Landscape design for the Cispus AMA
Case study: The Collowash/Hot Springs watershed
Case study: The Little Applegate watershed
Conclusions
Chapter 9 Design in managed natural forests
Introduction
Management in natural forests
The place of design in managed natural forests
Sketch design
Case study: Bonanza Face, British Columbia, Canada
Case study: Sutherlands Brook, Nova Scotia, Canada
Case study: Vuokatti, Finland
Conclusions
Chapter 10 The design of plantation forests
Introduction
Afforestation design
Case study: Victory Wood, Kent, England
Case study: Dochfour, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Conclusion
Afterword
1. Rural and wild landscapes are seldom “designed”
2. Forestry is catching on, but slowly
3. Natural scientists do not trust or understand design
4. Management inertia and resistance
The future of sustainable forest landscape design

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