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Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, provision of clean drinking water and other non-timber goods and services. Often they are monocultures that do not appear to invite people for recreation and other direct uses. Yet as this book clearly shows, they can play a vital role in the provision of ecosystem services, when compared to agriculture and other forms of land use or when natural forests have been degraded. This is the first book to examine explicitly the non-timber goods and services provided by plantation forests, including soil, water and biodiversity conservation, as well as carbon sequestration and the provision of local livelihoods. The authors show that, if we require a higher provision of ecosystem goods and services from both temperate and tropical plantations, new approaches to their management are required. These include policies, methods for valuing the services, the practices of small landholders, landscape approaches to optimise delivery of goods and services, and technical issues about how to achieve suitable solutions at the scale of forest stands. While providing original theoretical insights, the book also gives guidance for plantation managers, policy-makers, conservation practitioners and community advocates, who seek to promote or strengthen the multiple-use of forest plantations for improved benefits for society. Published with CIFOR.
Front Cover -- Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acronyms -- 1. Plantation forests: global perspectives: Markku Kanninen -- 2. Quantifying and valuing goods and services provided by plantation forests: Rudolf S. de Groot and Peter J. van der Meer -- 3. Managing forest plantations for carbon sequestration today and in the future: Hannes Böttcher and Marcus Lindner -- 4. Planted forests and water: Rodney J. Keenan and Albert I. J. M. Van Dijk -- 5. Silvicultural options to enhance and use forest plantation biodiversity: Jürgen Bauhus and Joachim Schmerbeck -- 6. Smallholder plantations in the tropics - local people between outgrower schemes and reforestation programmes: Benno Pokorny, Lisa Hoch and Julia Maturana -- 7. Policies to enhance the provision of ecosystem goods and services from plantation forests: Peter J. Kanowski -- 8. Ecosystem goods and services - the key for sustainable plantations: Jürgen Bauhus, Benno Pokorny, Peter J. van der Meer, Peter J. Kanowski and Markku Kanninen -- Glossary -- Index.
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