Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st Century

<p>Forward; Yvo de Boer<br>1.Introduction; Trevor Fenning<br>PART 1. Sustainable Forestry &amp; Conservation Objectives<br>2. A burning issue: Tropical Forests and the Health of Global Ecosystems; Paul McMahon<br>3. Silviculture of planted forests managed for multi-functional objectives: lessons from Chinese and British experiences ; Bill Mason &amp; Jiaojun Zhu<br>4. Forests for all? Considering the conservation implications of human-species interactions in the context of multifunctional forestry; Mariella Marzano, Christopher P. Quine &amp; Norman Dandy<br>5. Human engagement with forest environments – implications for physical and mental health and wellbeing; Simon Bell &amp; Catharine Ward Thompson<br>6. Sustainable forest management in China: Achievements in the past and challenges ahead; Li Nuyun<br>7. The Value of Forest: An Ecological Economic Examination of Forest People’s Perspective; Debal Deb<br>PART 2. Forest Resources Worldwide<br>8. Global trends and outlook for forest resources; Adrian Whiteman<br>9. Save the forests : Use more wood; Wink Sutton<br>PART 3. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change<br>10. Forests in the global carbon cycle; David Schimel<br>11. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change; John Grace, James Morison &amp; Mike Perks<br>12. The Influence of Climate Change on Insect Invasions in Temperate Forest Ecosystems; Patrick C. Tobin, Dylan Parry &amp; Brian H. Aukema<br>PART 4. The Economics of Forestry<br>13. How cost-effective is forestry for climate change mitigation?; Gregory Valatin &amp; Colin Price<br>14. Additionality of climate change mitigation activities; Gregory Valatin<br>15. Different Economic Approaches to Forest Management; David B. South<br>PART 5. Tree Breeding &amp; Commercial Forestry<br>16. A Roadmap to Eucalyptus Breeding for Clonal Forestry; Gabriel Dehon S.P. Rezende, Marcos Deon V. de Resende &amp; Teotônio F. de Assis<br>17. Conifer Somatic Embryogenesis and Multi-varietal Forestry; Yill-Sung Park<br>18. Modern Advances in Tree Breeding; Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Fikret Isik &amp; Ross W. Whetten<br>19. A ‘reality check’ in the management of tree breeding programmes ; Heidi S. Dungey, Alvin D. Yanchuk &amp; Rowland D. Burdon<br>20. Seed orchards and aspects on supporting tree breeding; Dag Lindgren<br>PART 6. Biotechnological approaches<br>21. Biosafety considerations in the context of deployment of GM trees; Hely Häggman, Suvi Sutela, Christian Walter &amp; Matthias Fladung<br>22. Scientific research related to genetically modified trees; Armand Séguin, Denis Lachance, Annabelle Déjardin, Jean-Charles Leplé &amp; Gilles Pilate<br>23. Forest Biotechnology Futures; Kevan M.A. Gartland &amp; Jill S. Gartland<br>24. Research and Application of Transgenic Poplar in China; Jianjun Hu, Lijuan Wang, Donghui Yan &amp; Meng-Zhu Lu<br>PART 7. Genomic studies with forest trees<br>25. Genome resequencing in Populus: Revealing large-scale genome variation and implications on specialized-trait genomics; Wellington Muchero, Jessy Labbé, Priya Ranjan, Stephen DiFazio &amp; Gerald A. Tuskan<br>26. Comparative and evolutionary genomics of forest trees; Andrew Groover &amp; Stefan Jansson<br>PART 8. Bio-energy, lignin and wood<br>27. Willows as a source of renewable fuels and diverse products; Angela Karp<br>28. Woodfuel production in the UK – unlocking the existing resource and growing for the future; Ian Tubby<br>29. Bioenergy opportunities from forests in New Zealand; Peter Hall &amp; Michael Jack<br>30. Creating the wood supply of the future; Barry Gardiner &amp; John Moore<br>PART 9. Forest Science, including ecological studies<br>31. Community genetics applications for forest biodiversity and policy: Planning for the future; Adam S. Wymore, Helen M. Bothwell, Zacchaeus G. Compson, Louis J. Lamit, Faith M. Walker, Scott A. Woolbright &amp; Thomas G. Whitham<br>32. The long reach of biogenic emissions in the atmosphere; Sanford Sillman<br>33. Ecological interactions of the host-insect system Quercus robur and Tortrix viridana; Hilke Schroeder &amp; Riziero Tiberi<br>34. Forests have survived climate changes and epidemics in the past. Will they continue to adapt and survive?  At what cost?  Stephanos Diamandis<br>35. Horse chestnut bleeding canker – a 21^st Century tree pathogen; S. Green, B.E.  Laue, R. Nowell, &amp; H. Steele<br>36. The use of small footprint airborne LiDAR for the estimation of individual tree parameters in Sitka spruce stands; Juan C. Suárez</p>