Sustainable Forests : Global Challenges and Local Solutions

Contents: Preface/O. Thomas Bouman. Acknowledgement. Introduction: Editorial summary/O. Thomas Bouman and David G. Brand. Formal address/Anne McLellan. I. Global challenges: 1. Quo Vadimus?/Matt Heering. 2. Sustainability: The Panacea for our forestry ills?/M.N. Salleh. 3. Cultural values versus science/Chris Maser. 4. Sustainable development of forests as a way to preserve a natural basis of forestry/Rainer Hummel and Alexander Sizykh. II. Local solutions: 1. Challenges to managing forests in Africa/Mangetane Gerard Khalikane. 2. Community forest management in Southern Asia: a survival issue/J.B. Lal. 3. Predivinsk Lespromkhoz: a case study on the collaborative restructuring of a forest product based community in Siberia/David Ostergren and Steve Hollenhorst. 4. Ecologically sustainable land use planning in the Russian Lake Baikal Region/Daniel R. Plumley. 5. Forest policy evolution in Poland/Kazimierz Rykowski. 6. Integrating a research station into community development and area protection in Nicaragua/Hans G. Schabel. 7. Sustainable forests: it\'s about time (Montana)/Barry R. Flamm. 8. Partnership building for sustainable development: a first nations perspective from Ontario/P.A. Story and F.H. Lickers. 9. Partnership building for sustainable development: an industry perspective from Saskatchewan/Jack Spencer. 10. Precious values: integrating diverse forest values into forest management policy and action (ontario)/Mark A. Stevenson, David R. Hardy and Laurie Gravelines. 11. Socio-economic sustainability in forest dependent communities/Phil Shantz. III. Scientific considerations: 1. An ecological-economic analysis of the role of Canadian forests in mitigating global climate change/Mohammed Dore, Mark Johnston and Harvey Stevens. 2. Value of wilderness protection in Saskatchewan: a case study of existence values/S.N. Kulshreshtha and K.G. Lowen. 3. Sustaining tropical forest biodiversity/P.D. Khasa and B.P. Dancik. 4. Biodiversity values and measures applied to forest management/John M. Silbaugh and David R. Betters. 5. Characterizing and comparing landscape diversity using GIS and a contagion index/Bernard R. Parresol and Joseph McCollum. 6. Artificial nest predation dynamics along a forest fragmentation gradient: a preliminary analysis/Erin Bayne and Keith Hobson.  7. Using micropropagation to conserve threatened rare species in sustainable forests/J.L. Edson, D.L. Wenny, A.D. Leege-Brusven and R.L. Everett. 8. Microbial inoculants for sustainable forests/M.S. Reddy, L.M. Funk, D.C. Covert, D.N. He and E.A. Pedersen. IV. Panel Discussion: 1. Janna Kumi (Government). 2. Hamish Kimmins (Academe). 3. Steve Smith (Industry). 4. Harvey Locke (Non-Governmental). 5. Russell Diabo (First Nations). 6. Lutz Fahser (international). Floor discussion. Index.