Sustainable Forest Ecosystems and Management: A Review Article
Sustainable Forest Ecosystems and Management: A Review Article
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DOI：
10.1093/forestscience/42.3.366
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发表时间：
1996-08
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影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
M. Toman;P. Ashton
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作者：
M. Toman;P. Ashton
关于森林资源和生态系统的可持续性的关注几乎从现代森林管理研究的一开始就被生态学家、生物学家、经济学家和其他专家所表达。然而，这种关注的焦点经历了几次转变。环境科学家强调在面临不同类型的人类干预时维护森林生态系统。另一方面，经济学家和森林管理人员强调森林系统有能力为人类社会持续提供有价值的货物和服务。本文从生态和经济两个角度对森林资源和生态系统的可持续性进行了评估。它力求查明这些学科观点如何有助于更好地理解可持续性，以及在哪些方面发现了最重要的概念和事实差距，特别令人感兴趣的是两个相关的主题：经济效率和可持续性对森林系统管理的影响如何不同，以及森林系统可持续性的标准如何与管理决定的规模有关（例如，个别森林地点对区域对全球生物圈）。For. Sci. 42（3）：366-377。
Concerns about the sustainability of forest resources and ecosystems have been expressed almost from the beginning of modern studies of forest management by ecologists, biologists, economists, and other specialists. However, the focus of this concern has gone through several transformations. Environmental scientists have emphasized the maintenance of forest ecosystems in the face of different types of human intervention. Economists and forest managers, on the other hand, have emphasized the capacity of forest systems to provide valued ongoing flows of goods and services for human societies. This paper takes stock of forest resource and ecosystem sustainability from both ecological and economic perspectives. It seeks to identify how these disciplinary perspectives contribute to a better understanding of sustainability, and where the most significant conceptual and factual gaps are found. Of particular interest are two related themes: how economic efficiency and sustainability may differ in their implications for forest system management, and how criteria for forest system sustainability are related to the scale of management decisions (e.g., individual forest site versus region versus the global biosphere). For. Sci. 42(3):366-377.