Textbook of Sustainable Forest Management

Description

Forests cover 30 percent of global land area, contain most of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and more carbon than the atmosphere. They provide livelihoods for more than a billion supply, and soil and water protection. Forests also have a major role in climate change mitigation, trapping and storing more than a trillion tonnes of carbon each year, yet at the same time, destruction of forests sends six billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. All of this indicates the crucial need for sustainable forest management (SFM). Sustainable forest management curbs forest degradation and deforestation while increasing direct benefits to people and the environment through sound policies and sustainable practices. At the local level, SFM contributes to peoples' livelihoods, income generation and employment. At the environmental level, it contributes through, for example, carbon sequestration and water and soil conservation. This book “Textbook of Sustainable Forest Management” comprises of all related facts and figures for the effective management of forest for future generations.