Managing forested landscapes for socio-ecological resilience

Addressing sustainability in the face of profound global changes presents new challenges for forest managers. It has initiated a new cycle of development in approaches to management of forests for natural resources and other ecosystem services. Selected case studies from North America, Latin America, and Europe are used to illustrate advances in forest management in response to local impacts of global changes, and to identify options for addressing current challenges and elements of an emerging management paradigm based on the integration and resilience of ecological and socio-economic systems. Such a conceptual framework for management of natural resources recognises the complexity of systems (ecological, economic, and social), their hierarchical structures, the interactions and energy flows between these hierarchies, and their capacity for self-organisation. Applying systems thinking to forest manage-ment requires new approaches to conventional practices. Learning how to facilitate the ability of natural forest systems to self-organise, adapt and evolve, and to guide them towards a desired appropriate state is one of the challenges. The increasing importance of engagement, capacity building, and participation of all actors on the landscape as critical components for collaborative visioning, planning, and managing future options is recognised as a first step toward maintaining the provision of ecosystem services at the landscape level. Biosphere reserves, model forests, and other landscape-level initia-tives that have already contributed to improved understanding of forest management issues and played key roles in establishing participatory decision-making approaches, are well-positioned to assist in testing and applying these new concepts.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	121192 Spies, T., 128713 Vides, R., 45790 Baker, C., 46786 Barriga, M., 53556 Campos, J., 59150 Corrales, O., 65721 Espinoza, L., 71617 Gibson, S., 72005 Glatthorn, J., 90743 Martineau Delisle, C., 106945 Prins, C., 113410 Rose, N.A., 92192 McAfee, B., Camino, R. de 53312, 52100 Burton, P.J., 64470 Eddy, B., 66266 Fahser, L., 93886 Messier, C., 109644 Reed, M.G., 13143 IUFRO-WFSE, Helsinski (Finlandia), 93825 Mery, G. (ed.), 82439 Katila, P. (ed.), 69958 Galloway, G. (ed.), 41397 Alfaro, R.I. (ed.), 82226 Kanninen, M. (ed.), 87294 Lobovikov, M. (ed.), 127704 Varjo, J. (ed.)
Format:	biblioteca
Language:	spa
Published:	Vantaa (Finlandia) 2010
Subjects:	AGRICULTURA, ORDENACION FORESTAL, ECOSISTEMA, CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO, ADAPTABILIDAD, PARTICIPACION SOCIAL, GOBERNANCIA, ESTUDIOS DE CASOS PRACTICOS,
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