Information about continuous cover forest management is urgently needed

1 Historical Emergence and Current Application of CCF
Jean-Philippe Schütz, Timo Pukkala, Pablo Donoso and Klaus v. Gadow
2 Forest Structure and Diversity
Klaus v. Gadow, Chun Yu Zhang, Christian Wehenkel, Arne Pommerening, Javier Corral-Rivas, Mykola Korol, Stepan Myklush, Gang Ying Hui, Ander Kiviste and Xiu Hai Zhao
3 Continuous Cover Forestry in Finland - Recent Research Results
Timo Pukkala, Erkki Lähde and Olavi Laiho
4 Regulation of Timber Yield Sustainability for Tropical and Subtropical Moist Forests: Ecosilvicultural Paradigms and Economic Constraints
Armin H. W. Seydack
5 The Economics of Continuous Cover Forestry
Thomas Knoke
6 Optimizing Continuous Cover Forest Management
Kari Hyytiäinen and Robert G. Haight
7 Modelling Continuous Cover Forests
Jeremy Vanclay
8 Bootstrap simulation, Markov decision process models, and role of discounting in the valuation of ecological criteria in uneven-aged forest management
Mo Zhou, Joseph Buongiorno, Jingjing Liang
9 Resource Assessment Techniques for Continuous Cover Forestry
Michael Köhl and Thomas Baldauf

Although the majority of the world's forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, selectively managed as Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), are often believed to be superior to monocultures in addressing a wide range of expectations. This book presents methods which are relevant to CCF management and planning: analysing forest structures, silvicultural and planning, economic evaluation, based on examples in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America.