Highlights Controversies about the expansion of planted forests develop amidst confusion about terminology, its scope and definition, and the fact that many ter

Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature. This book takes a multidi

Forests are landscape-embedded complex systems with fates determined by multitudes of changing and interacting factors that are sectoral and extra-sectoral, bio

Background. To meet increasing demand for forest products and services, the global area of planted forests has increased dramatically over the past 25 years. Fu

Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity con