Forest management and complexity: towards a new silviculture?

Abstract

After summarizing the main topics of the book “A Critique of Silviculture - Managing for Complexity” (Puettmann et al. 2009), some aspects of interest on the management of forests as complex, adaptive systems, are briefly discussed in order to contribute to the ongoing debate dividing silviculturists, researchers and scholars in Italy.

Keywords

• Adaptive complex systems
• Forest management
• Silviculture
• Forestry