TY  - CHAP
AB  - According to a report by Food and Agriculture Organization, total forest area in the world as of 2005 is estimated at 3,952 million hectares (9,766 acres) or 30 percent of total land area (FAO, 2005a). The area of forest is unevenly distributed (FAO, 2005b). At the regional level, South America is the region with the highest percentage of forest cover, followed by Europe and North and Central America. Asia is the region with the lowest percentage of forest cover (FAO, 2005c). The forest environments are changing globally. Climate change is one of the reasons, and it affects world forest management. More attention has been devoted to timber as the major commercial aspect of forests rather than to other noncommercial resource values (Barnard et al., 1985). The purpose of forest management was once as simple as taking timbers, but it is now more complicated. When the forest environments change, the key trends of world forest management must also change. Now, generally speaking, the extent of forest resources refers to an overall maintaining of adequate forest cover and stocking of various forest types and characteristics, and the ultimate aim of monitoring the extent and characteristics of forest resources is to reduce unplanned deforestation, restore and rehabilitate degraded forest landscapes, manage forests sustainably, and evaluate the important function of carbon sequestration by forests, other wooded land, and trees outside forests, thereby contributing to moderating the global climate (FAO, 2005d).
VL  - 5
SN  - 978-0-85724-485-7, 978-0-85724-486-4/2040-7262
DO  - 10.1108/S2040-7262(2010)0000005013
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2010)0000005013
AU  - Fujita Kumiko
AU  - Shaw Rajib
ED  - Rajib Shaw
ED  - Juan M. Pulhin
ED  - Joy Jacqueline Pereira
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Chapter 7 Forest management as an adaptation option in mountain areas of Japan
T2  - Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective
T3  - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 127
EP  - 145
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -