Sustainable Forest Management

Sustainable forest management deals with the increasing socio-economic demands of growing human populations while maintaining ecological function of forest ecosystems. Forest management deals not only with conservation of biodiversity of forests, but also its role in carbon recycling, climate change and ecosystem based management of broader landscapes, which can be well beyond the confines of the forests. The conservation of biological diversity of forests in an ecologically sustainable way requires successful design of management strategies, especially when the relationships between potential indicator species and biodiversity are not well established. The strategies required for sustainable management of forests are based on the fact that human interactions with the environment are required to be modified to ensure the sustenance of healthy ecosystems. This book presents the studies for sustainable biological diversity considerations in forestry and in consequence strategies applicable for future forest management.