Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Forestry

Alark Saxena is an Associate Professor of Forestry in the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University, USA.Alder Keleman Saxena is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, USA.Jeffrey Chow is a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute for Public Policy, Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.Josep Maria Serra Diaz is the Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Spain.

• 1. Introduction: Shaping the Future with Forests Part 1. Sustainable Forestry Foundations and Futures 2. Sustainable Forestry Paradigms, Criteria, and Indicators: A History 3. Sustainability Beyond Western Paradigms 4. Shifts in Global Forest Types 5. Forest Conservation Across Scales Part 2. Assessing Sustainability in Forest Landscapes 6. Managing Forests Under Increasing Complexity: How forest models can guide us towards sustainability 7. Defining Forest Monitoring to Produce Biodiversity Indicators and Assessment: A rationale 8. Remote Sensing for Forest Structure and Ecological Integrity 9. The Role of Dendrochronology in Assessing Forest Health and Sustainability: Reconstructing the past to manage the future 10. Economics of Sustainable Forestry Part 3. Policy and Legal Frameworks for Forest Sustainability 11. Institutional Dimensions of Forest Sustainability 12. Forest Certification for Sustainability 13. Trade Policy as a Tool for Forest Sustainability 14. Global Agreements and Multilateral Cooperation for Forest Conservation Part 4. Forests and Ecosystem Services 15. Carbon Sequestration by Forests 16. Watershed Dynamics and Forest Ecosystem Services 17. Economic Assessments of Ecosystem Services from Large Forested Landscapes for Urban Populations 18. Role of Urban Forestry in future sustainability from an African Perspective: With Special reference to Niger 19. Non-Timber Forest Products in Nepal: Prospects for Rural Livelihoods and Economic Development 20. Forests and Food Security 21. Forests as Social Safety Nets 22. Relational Values and Sustainable Forestry Part 5. Expanding Forestry Actors 23. Old wine in a new bottle: Scientific Forestry Narratives and Exclusions in the Community Forestry of Nepal 24. Knowledge Co-production at the Research–Practice Interface: Learning from Urban Forestry 25. Indigenous Forestry: Weaving Survival, Resilience, Self-Determination, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge 26. The Sacred Groves of India: Sustaining Forests and Biodiversity 27. Rooted Inequalities in Forest Education: Insights from a Students’ Perspective Part 6. Critical Challenges to Sustaining Forests 28. Explaining the emergence of deforestation frontiers 29. Wildland Fire 30. Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka: The need to address the drivers of conflict 31. Emergent forest diseases under global change 32. Adapting Forests to Climate Change Part 7: Building Forests for the Future 33. Restoring degraded forests in the central Himalayas 34. Genetics in Practice for Reforestation and Ecological Restoration: Concepts, Guidelines, and Case Studies 35. Industrial Agroforestry and Farm-Forestry in India 36. The Science and Practice of Sustainable Nurseries and Plantations 37. Reduced Impact Logging 38. Regenerative Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution for Conserving Forest Ecosystems