Sustainable Forest Management provides the necessary material to educate students about forestry and the contemporary role of forests in ecosystems and society. This comprehensive textbook on the concept and practice of sustainable forest management sets the standard for practice worldwide.

1. Sustainable Forest Management: From Concept to Practice John L. Innes 2. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management John L. Innes 3. Forest Biodiversity Fred Bunnell 4. Productivity of Forest Ecosystems Juan A. Blanco, Yueh-Hsin Lo, Clive Welham, and Bruce Larson 5. Forest Ecosystem Health and Vitality Richard Hamelin and John L. Innes 6. Maintenance of Soils John L. Innes 7. Water and Watersheds R. Dan Moore, Roy C. Sidle, Brett Eaton, Gomi Takahashi and David Wilford 8. Forests and Carbon John L. Innes 9. The Changing Socio-economic Contributions of Forestry Harry Nelson, Ngaio Hotte, and Robert Kozak 10. Social, Cultural, and Spiritual (SCS) Needs and Values Janette Bulkan 11. Public Participation in Forest Land-Use Decision-Making Howard Harshaw and Hosny El-Lakany 12. Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) from an International Perspective Hosny El-Lakany 13. Addressing Social, Economic and Environmental Objectives and Values through Decision Support Systems Craig R. Nitschke, Anne-Hélène Mathey, Patrick O. Waeber 14. Assessing the Quality of Forest Management Anna V. Tikina 15. Adaptive Management: a Case Study of How Some of the Principles of SFM can be Applied in Practice Fred Bunnell 16. Conclusions John L. Innes