When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration.
Ambio
; 45(5): 538-50, 2016 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-26961011
ABSTRACT
We present a historical overview of forest concepts and definitions, linking these changes with distinct perspectives and management objectives. Policies dealing with a broad range of forest issues are often based on definitions created for the purpose of assessing global forest stocks, which do not distinguish between natural and planted forests or reforests, and which have not proved useful in assessing national and global rates of forest regrowth and restoration. Implementing and monitoring forest and landscape restoration requires additional approaches to defining and assessing forests that reveal the qualities and trajectories of forest patches in a spatially and temporally dynamic landscape matrix. New technologies and participatory assessment of forest states and trajectories offer the potential to operationalize such definitions. Purpose-built and contextualized definitions are needed to support policies that successfully protect, sustain, and regrow forests at national and global scales. We provide a framework to illustrate how different management objectives drive the relative importance of different aspects of forest state, dynamics, and landscape context.
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Colección:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
2_ODS3
Problema de salud:
2_quimicos_contaminacion
Asunto principal:
Bosques
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Monitoreo del Ambiente
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Agricultura Forestal
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Restauración y Remediación Ambiental
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ambio
Año:
2016
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Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos