Forests in Landscapes - Ecosystem Approaches to Sustainability

An IUCN/PROFOR publication by Jeffrey Sayer and Stewart Maginnis

At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground'
- Claude Martin, WWF International

This joint publication by IUCN and PROFORR explores the relationship between sustanaible forestmanagement and the ecosystem approach. Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingl being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests.

A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future.

This book is a must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and as part of rural landscapes.