Biodiversity and Sustainability Assessments for Forest Management

Abstract:

The future of much of the biological diversity in the world’s forests depends upon the way in which timber production forests are managed (International Tropical Timber Organization, ITTO, 1999a). This relatively recently-defined axiom of forest management is encapsulated by The Forest Stewardship Council’s Principles and Criteria for Forest Stewardship (FSC, 1996), which require that forest management maintain intact, enhance or restore biodiversity at all its levels, including that of ‘unique and fragile ecosystems’. What are the characteristics of biodiversity at the ecosystem level, what is the basis of the requirement that forest management conserve biodiversity at this level, and how might the fulfilment of this requirement be assessed through C&I? The general objective of this chapter is to provide a synthesis of concepts related to ecosystem-level biodiversity, its importance to sustainability and its …

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2001

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