Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Extreme Fire Behaviour
(Domingos Xavier Viegas, ADAI/LAETA, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

What do the Critics of Conservation Want?
(Thorkil Casse, Roskilde University, Denmark)

Effects of Land Use Changes and Management Practices on Water Yield in Native Forests and Exotic Plantations in Southern Chile
(Carlos E. Oyarzún, Pedro Hervé-Fernandez, Cristián Frêne, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, and others)

Effect of Land Use Planning on Forest Conservation in Kilosa District, Tanzania
(Abrahaman Hassan Mndeme, Emmanuel F. Nzunda, Emmanuel J. Luoga, Department of Forest Mensuration and Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania)

Wildlife Corridors: Conceptualization, Valuation as an Environmental Management Tool and Applicability on Forest Ecosystems
(Roberto Moreno, Ricardo Zamora, Miguel Ángel Herrera, Department of Forest Engineering, University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain)

The Total Optimization of Forestry Profits Based on Joint Implementation Silvicultural Practices
(Tohru Nakajima, Lab. of Global Forest Environmental Studies
Graduate School of Agriculturaand Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

Spanish Black Pine (Pinus Nigra Arn. ssp Salzmannii) Seedling Growth under Different Soils Treatments: Implications for their Forest Management in Mediterranean Areas
(Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Castilla La Mancha University, School of Advanced Agricultural Engineering, Department of Agroforestry Technology and Science and Genetics, Albacete, Spain)*

Development of Carbon Sequestration Models and the Management of Coniferous Forests in China: Assessment of Carbon Sequestration for Pines, Firs, Abies, Picea and Larch Species
(Zhang Ying, Haron Jeremiah, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, P.R.China)*

Index