The Management of Industrial Forest Plantations

Preface.- Part 1. Industrial forest plantations management planning.- 1. The importance of industrial forest plantations; Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez et al.- 2. An overview of forest management planning and information management; Marc McDill.- 3. Forest growth and yield models for intensively managed plantations; Aaron R. Weiskittel.- 4. Management of industrial plantations; José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves et al.- 5. Economics and management; L. Diaz-Balteiro.- 6. Strategic management scheduling; J. G. Borges et al.- 7. Tactical and operational management scheduling; A.F. Marques.- 8. Transportation and routing; J.F. Audy.- Part 2. Advanced management planning topics.- 9. Integrating management planning levels with decision support systems; J.G. Borges et al.- 10. Addressing risk and global change scenarios; Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo et al.- 11. Integrating nursery and planting activities; Silvana Ribeiro Nobre, Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez.- 12. Dynamic design of treatment units; Timo Pukkala et al.- 13. Developing a sustainability index for industrial plantations; J.C. Gimenez et al.- Part 3. The industrial forestry supply chain.- 14. Carbon sequestration and industrial plantations; Bruce Manley.- 15. Certification of industrial plantations; Anna Tikina, John Innes.- 16. Forestry raw materials supply chain management; Kevin Boston.- 17. Pulp and paper supply chain management; Sophie D’Amours et al.- 18. Environmental impact assessment of forest operations and pulp manufacture; Sara González-García et al.- Index.

“A book of this sort is most handy for the plantation managers, forest department officers as well as graduate and undergraduate students of forestry.” (S. Suresh Ramanan, Current Science, Vol. 117 (11), 2019)