Sustainable Forest Resources Management

Forests are one of our most valuable resources, yet they are fast depleting with an impending ecological crisis in view. The striking concept of sustainable forest management involves the use of socially justifiable, economically viable, and ecologically sound strategies for sustainably managing forest resources for present and future generations without diminishing their value. This new book, Sustainable Forest Resources Management: Issues and Implications, presents ideas of sustainable forest management from different viewpoints.

The book details the issues of implicating sustainable forest management practices and highlights the aspects of forest resources, the importance of traditional knowledge, the need for conservation, the impact of climate change, and ecosystem services. It covers the scientific, technical, and socio-economical aspects of forests to further ensure the conservation of forest resources. The book explains the value of forest resources by emphasizing livelihood security and traditional knowledge. Moreover, it discusses the climate change effect on forest health and reviews ecosystem services from the management perspective.

Topics included in the book include common ones such as the importance of forests, its benefits to communities, climate change, forest fires, etc. At the same time, it also covers specialized topics such as traditional knowledge of conservation status of medicinal plants, traditional methods of conserving medicinal plants, ecosystem services of agroforestry, trees as fodder, and so on.

With special focus on Indian conditions and forests, the book presents possible suggestions and recommendations for managing forest resources on not just local but also the global level. The broad topics covered in the book will be useful to researchers, scientists, conservation activists, foresters, policymakers, and students in environmental science/conservation/biology/botany programs across the world.