The edition includes significant changes while maintaining the features and strengths so highly valued by adopters for more than four decades! Forest Management retains its unique focus on analytical and quantitative ways of thinking about forest resources management. Its central aim is still to provide decision-makers and stakeholders with comprehensive, quantitative estimates of the consequences of various choices in land use and planning.

Forest Management

Business & Money

Bettinger, Pete

Davis, Lawrence S.

Johnson, K. Norman

Howard, Theodore

Industries

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math.

This first edition of GIS Applications in Forestry and Natural Resource Management is intended for introductory courses in Geographic Information Systems or computer applications in forestry and natural resource management. The emphasis of the book is on the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in natural resource management, or GIS applications. We provide detailed coverage of GIS operations such as querying, buffering, clipping, and overlay analysis (and others), as well as background information on the history of GIS, database creation, editing, and acquisition, and map development. The applications provided can be extended to any region of the World, although the primary emphasis is North America, as portrayed by alternative management scenarios.

Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Forestry and Natural Resources Management

Science & Math

Wing, Michael G.

Wing, Michael

Earth Sciences

Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources presents a broad overview of the profession of forestry. The book details several key fields within forestry, including forest health, economics, policy, utilization, and forestry careers. Chapters deal specifically with forest products and harvesting, recreation, wildlife habitats, tree anatomy and physiology, and ethics. These topics are ideal for undergraduate introductory courses and include numerous examples (mainly graphical) and questions for students to ponder. Unlike other introductory forestry texts, which focus largely on forest ecology rather than practical forestry concepts, Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources encompasses economic, ecological, and social aspects providing a uniquely balanced text. The wide range of experience of the contributing authors equips them especially well to identify missing content from other texts in the area and address topics currently covered in corresponding college courses.

Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources

Grebner, Donald L.

Siry, Jacek P.

Biological Sciences

Academic Press

Forest Management and Planning, Second Edition, addresses contemporary forest management planning issues, providing a concise, focused resource for those in forest management. The book is intermixed with chapters that concentrate on quantitative subjects, such as economics and linear programming, and qualitative chapters that provide discussions of important aspects of natural resource management, such as sustainability. Expanded coverage includes a case study of a closed canopy, uneven-aged forest, new forest plans from South America and Oceania, and a new chapter on scenario planning and climate change adaptation.

Forest Management and Planning

Boston, Kevin

Economics

Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, Second Edition, presents a broad, completely updated overview of the profession of forestry. The book details several key fields within forestry, including forest management, economics, policy, utilization and forestry careers. Chapters deal specifically with forest regions of the world, landowners, forest products, wildlife habitats, tree anatomy and physiology, and forest disturbances and health. These topics are ideal for undergraduate introductory courses and include numerous examples and questions for students to ponder. There is also a section dedicated to forestry careers. 
Unlike other introductory forestry texts, which focus largely on forest ecology rather than practical forestry concepts, this book encompasses the economic, ecological and social aspects, thus providing a uniquely balanced text. The wide range of experience of the contributing authors equips them especially well to identify missing content from other texts in the area and address topics currently covered in corresponding college courses. Covers the application of forestry and natural resources around the world with a focus on practical applications and graphical examples Describes basic techniques for measuring and evaluating forest resources and natural resources, including fundamental terminology and concepts Includes management policies and their influence at the local, national and international levels

Nature & Ecology

Mapping Human and Natural Systems covers our increasingly digital world - internet communications, cloud computing, etc., and how our ability to quickly and visually communicate is becoming increasingly important. The book provides the reader with a ready reference to learn about map creation and interpretation and to help them better interact with, and construct, maps. There are several software systems available that focus on maps and mapping, but no single resource that covers the fundamentals of mapping. This book fills that need.

Mapping Human and Natural Systems

Merry, Krista

Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Natural Resource Management is intended for introductory-course students in forestry and natural resource management, field forestry, biology, and other natural resource or natural resource-related fields. The emphasis of this book is on the application of Geographic Information systems (GIS). It provides detailed coverage of GIS operations such as querying, buffering, clipping, and overlay analysis; as well as background information on the history of GIS, database creation, editing and acquisition, and map development. The applications provided can be extended to any region of the world, although the primary emphasis is on Canada and the rest of North America. This book also examines current GIS trends and the opportunities and challenges likely to face GIS users.

Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Natural Resource Management

Oxford University Press

Product Description Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers provides a resource for developing knowledge and skills concerning GIS as it applies to forestry and natural resource management. This book helps readers understand how GIS can effectively be used by professional foresters and land managers to conduct spatial analyses or address management decisions. Through topics presented, readers will improve their ability to understand GIS data sources, identify GIS data types and quality, perform common spatial analysis processes, create GIS data, produce maps, and ultimately develop the skills necessary to use GIS analysis to answer real-world questions.This book will be of great benefit to GIS users looking to directly apply techniques to real-world data or foresters and natural resource scientists who use GIS in their research. Review Presents a practical guide on the use and applications of GIS technologies for foresters and natural resource managers From the Back Cover Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers is a resource specifically for developing knowledge and skills concerning GIS as it applies to forestry and natural resource management. GIS knowledge and skills are essential tools of foresters and natural resource managers as GIS is a powerful tool used very frequently by nearly everyone employed in these fields. This book helps readers understand how GIS can effectively be used by professional foresters and land managers to conduct spatial analyses or to address management decisions. Through the topics presented in the twelve chapters of this book, readers will improve their ability to understand GIS data sources, identify GIS data types and quality, perform common spatial analysis processes, create GIS data, produce maps, and ultimately develop the skills necessary to use GIS analysis to answer real-word questions related to forestry and natural resource management. Intermixed within the core content of each chapter, additional ‘reflections, diversions, inspections, and translations’ are provided to encourage readers’ critical thinking and directly apply the methods of the book to their own work, prompting readers to compare concepts presented to real-world applications.Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers will be of great benefit to GIS users looking to directly apply techniques to real-world data, or foresters and natural resource scientists who use GIS in their research and need a practical reference on techniques, applications and methods. About the Author Dr Merry is well-published and has nearly two decades of experience in using geographic information systems (GIS), satellite imagery, and aerial photography. She has Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in Geography from the University of Georgia. She is co-author of Mapping Human and Natural Systems, published by Academic Press. She has taught many continuing education courses for seasoned professionals on the use of GIS. She also has experience in developing an online continuing education course (introgps.uga.edu) and has led the data collection efforts for several human subject surveys. She is co-editor of Forest Plans of North America (Academic Press, 2015), and editor of the Proceedings of the Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference (soforgis.uga.edu).Pete Bettinger is a professor of forestry at the University of Georgia. He conducts research in applied forest management with particular emphasis on harvest scheduling, landscape planning, precision forestry, and geospatial technologies. Dr. Bettinger received Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in forestry from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in forest resources from Oregon State University. Dr. Bettinger worked for the forest industry in the southern and western United States and maintains this connection to forestry professionals through h

Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers

Crosby, Michael

Elsevier

Applying twenty-first century analytical and quantitative ways of thinking about forest resource management problems . . . Now available from Waveland Press, the fourth edition of Forest Management revised significantly from previous, successful editions offers authoritative, up-to-date coverage of broad-scope concepts and ideas for those entering the fields of forest management, forest economics, and forest ecology. Viewed as large integrated ecosystems that are often owned and managed by multiple landowners, forests continue to be at the center of debates involving global warming and the sustaining of human populations. Because long-term ecological outcomes of forest management activities continue to be of heightened concern to citizens, interest groups, and regulators, the comprehensive fourth edition recognizes the scope of ecological, economic, and social outcomes from the management and use of forest lands. It provides future decision makers and stakeholders with contemporary methods to make quantitative estimates of the consequences of implementing alternative management or policy scenarios for forests. Available on the authors' website are useful databases, files, and worksheets used to generate, solve, and report solutions to problems of forest management. Outstanding features and coverage! 1) includes greatly expanded exposition of the definition, measurement, and practical application of sustainability and sustained yield concepts; 2) stresses the critical role of comprehensive silvicultural prescriptions and their spatial assignment to provide for a multitude of forest outcomes, including timber, wildlife, and recreation within sustainable ecosystems; 3) provides an introduction to the concepts, methods, and applications of explicit spatial analysis of forest tracts, watersheds, and ecological units using new heuristic techniques, and illustrates the techniques using teaching models and data sets; and 4) offers examples and problems to illustrate analyses presented in the book.
 Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Edmonds et al., Forest Health and Protection, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577666523); Hendee et al., Introduction to Forests and Renewable Resources, Eighth Edition (ISBN 9781577667469); Miller, Urban Forestry: Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577665106); and Nyland, Silviculture: Concepts and Applications, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577665274).

Forest Management: To Sustain Ecological, Economic, and Social Values

Howard, Theodore E.

Waveland Pr Inc.

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Forest Management

Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Forestry and Natural Resources Management

Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources

Forest Management and Planning

Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources

Mapping Human and Natural Systems

Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Natural Resource Management

Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers

Forest Management: To Sustain Ecological, Economic, and Social Values