Forests and other biomass resources
- Introduction to biomass resources
- Trees, forest and forest ecosystems
- Global forest resources
- Structure and properties of wood and woody biomass
- Forest inventory and planning
- Management of forest ecosystems
- Forest production in ecological context
- Regeneration through natural seeding
- Regeneration through planting
- Genetic improvement of trees for forest plantations
- Management of growing and developing forest over time
- Spacing and thinning affecting availability of resources
- Thinning regimes and rules
- Management of sequestrate carbon and adaptation to climate change
- Management for improving timber quality
- Management of nutrient resources and site fertility
- Management of abiotic risks
- Management of biotic risks
- Characteristics of pest outbreaks
- Resistance mechanism of trees against herbivores and pathogens
- Induced defence
- Models explaining variation in chemical defence between plants
- Biological control in pest management
- Effects of forest management and structure on forest pests
- Climate change and forest damaged related to pests and herbivory
- Management of forests for sequetration carbon in carbon mitigating warming
- Carbon stocks in trees and soil
- Carbon balance in managed forests
- Carbon retentation in forest ecosystems and forest-based prodcution
- *Mitigating radiative forcing in forestry and forest-based production
- *Mitigating radiative forcing in management
- * Radiative forcing related to carbon in ecosystem
- * Impacts of replacing fossil fuels and fossil materials on radiative forcing
- Management for adaptation to climate change
- Timber procurement
- Timber assortments
- Harvest and timber transport
- Harvesting woody biomass for energy
- Opening forest areas for logging by consturcting roads
- Storing timber
- Organising and planning harvesting operations
- Harvesting in industrial plantations
- Damage to timber
- Environmental impacts of timber harvesting
- Timber trade
- Timber measurement
- Wood markets and cost of wood
- Global forest related policies and governance
Civil society related actors and processes ENGOs and environmental campaigns Environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) have, for decades, played an increasingly important role in the governance of the world’s forests. In this respect, the concept of governance contains the participation of non-governmental actors, including market-based and those representing civic society. Among the latter, the ENGOs dominate
Authors & references
Author
Olli Saastamoinen
References
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- World Wide Fund for Nature – WWF. http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/who_we_are/history/index.cfm. Visited 15.10.2008.
- Greenpeace. http://www.greenpeace.org/finland/fi/. Visited 12.2.2009.
- Friends of The Earth. http://www.foe.co.uk/. Visited 12.2.2009.
- Greenpeace. https://www.greenpeace.org/international/. Visited 12.2.2009.
- Friends of The Earth Internationa. https://www.foei.org/. Visited 12.2.2009.
- Building and Wood Worker´s Internationa. https://www.bwint.org/. Visited 05.10,2019
- International Labour Organization. http://www.ilo.org/global/lang-en/index.htm. Visited 12.2.2009.
- Forest Stewardship Council. http://www.fsc.org/. Visited 12.2.2009.
- WDF India. http://www.wsfindia.org/. Visited 12.2.2009.
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