Sustainable Forestry also deals with current management problems within the forestry profession, beginning with university training and ending with dysfunction in land management agencies. Important topics such as forest planning, establishing an environmental vision and resolving conflicts are also discussed.
-- Provides a characterization of a forest as a dynamic living organism which is far more complex than just its trees
-- Examines the fundamental issues concerning biological sustainability
-- Suggests a new role for governmental forestry services as agents for change
-- Discusses the importance of sustainability to critical natural resources such as water supply
-- Discusses forest planning as the bridge between environmental conflict and a workable environmental/social vision of the future