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Tropical Forestry Handbook, Second Edition. Edited by Laslo Pancel and Michael Köhl, Springer-Verlag, 2016; 3633 pages, 4 Volumes. Price: $2,500.00, ISBN 978-3-642-54600-6

by
Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland
Forests 2016, 7(10), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/f7100242
Submission received: 22 September 2016 / Accepted: 18 October 2016 / Published: 20 October 2016
Versions Notes
The Tropical Forestry Handbook [1] has been prepared by professionals that are dedicated to the protection and the sustainable management of tropical forests. They want to make their expertise available for a wide audience. Their contributions provide valuable insight in sustainable tropical forest management. It is our hope, that the Tropical Forestry Handbook will become a helpful tool for mastering the current and future challenges of tropical forests. It is our hope that this book acquires a liking for young people especially. And it is our hope that readers join us and will not be released ever again from the miscellany, uniqueness and fascination of tropical forests.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Tropical Forestry and to This Handbook
·
Tropical Forest Resources—Facts and Tables
·
International Processes—Framework conditions for Tropical Forestry
·
Climatology and Meteorology considering Climate Change
·
Identification of Tree Species in the Tropics
·
Tropical Forest Ecology
·
Scope and Extent of Wood Biology
·
Remote Sensing of tropical Forestry Resources
·
Forest Resources Assessment
·
Genetics and Tropical Forests
·
Forest Seeds
·
Forestry Nursery Management
·
Plant Nutrition in Tropical Forestry
·
Species Selection in Tropical Forestry
·
Basic Outline of tree plantations in the Tropics
·
Tropical Silviculture
·
Mangrove Forests and their management
·
Forestry Management
·
Land Evaluation and Forestry Management
·
Watershed Management
·
Range Management
·
Agroforestry: essential for sustainable and climate-smart land use?
·
Community Forestry
·
Wildlife Management
·
Nature Conservation
·
Forest Road Engineering
·
Forestry Harvesting Operations
·
Pest Management
·
Fire Management in Tropical Forests
·
From Lifelines to Livelihoods: Non-timber forest products into the 21st century
·
Grading Forestry Products
·
Forestry Economics
·
Compensation Payments, PES, CDM, REDD in Forestry
·
Forestry Project Management
·
Forest Markets
·
Ergonomics / Forestry Labor
·
Indigenous People and Forests
·
Forestry Extension
·
Tropical Forest Policy and Legislation
·
Forest Rights of Target Groups
·
Forest Crime in the Tropics
·
Introduction to forest certification schemes
·
Changing Trends of Forestry Research Demand
·
Research Areas in Tropical Forestry
Index

* Editor’s Note:

The brief summary and the contents of the books are reported as provided by the author or the publishers. Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent books of potential interest to readers of Forests to the Publisher [Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland. Tel.: +41-61-683-77-34; Fax: +41-61-302-89-18, E-Mail: [email protected]]. Some books will be offered to the scholarly community for the purpose of preparing full-length reviews.

Note

  1. The website for this book is: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642546006.

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Lin, S.-K. Tropical Forestry Handbook, Second Edition. Edited by Laslo Pancel and Michael Köhl, Springer-Verlag, 2016; 3633 pages, 4 Volumes. Price: $2,500.00, ISBN 978-3-642-54600-6. Forests 2016, 7, 242. https://doi.org/10.3390/f7100242

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Lin S-K. Tropical Forestry Handbook, Second Edition. Edited by Laslo Pancel and Michael Köhl, Springer-Verlag, 2016; 3633 pages, 4 Volumes. Price: $2,500.00, ISBN 978-3-642-54600-6. Forests. 2016; 7(10):242. https://doi.org/10.3390/f7100242

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Lin, Shu-Kun. 2016. "Tropical Forestry Handbook, Second Edition. Edited by Laslo Pancel and Michael Köhl, Springer-Verlag, 2016; 3633 pages, 4 Volumes. Price: $2,500.00, ISBN 978-3-642-54600-6" Forests 7, no. 10: 242. https://doi.org/10.3390/f7100242

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