Table of Contents:
  • Personal introduction / Rt. Hon. Lord Clark of Windermere
  • Forests and climate change : the knowledge-base for action / P.H. Freer-Smith, M.S.J. Broadmeadow, and J.M. Lynch
  • Present and future carbon sources and sinks / M. Heimann
  • Global forest sector : trends, threats and opportunities / R. Seppälä
  • Carbon sequestration as a forestry opportunity in a changing climate / J. Burley, J. Ebeling, and P.M. Costa
  • Forests and climate change : global understandings and possible responses / S. Dresner, P. Ekins, K. McGeevor and J. Tomei
  • The forest science-policy interface / L.G. Meira Filho
  • Causes of gaps between perceived potentials and actual implementation of forest-sector mitigation activities / S. Brown and W.A. Kurz
  • Forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere : spruce forest tales! / P.G. Jarvis and S. Linder
  • Afforestation, reforestation and reduced deforestation to sequester carbon and reduce emissions / B. Schlamadinger and T. Johns
  • Energy and fuelwood / R.E.H. Sims
  • Carbon in wood products and product substitution / R.W. Matthews, K. Robertson, G. Marland and E. Marland
  • Towards a high resolution forest carbon balance for Europe based on inventory data / G-J. Nabuurs, D.C. Van der Werf, A.H. Heidema and I.J.J. van den Wyngaert
  • Forestry in Europe under changing climate and land use / J. Eggers, M. Lindner, S. Zudin, S. Zaehle, J. Liski and G-J. Nabuurs
  • Soils and waste management : a challenge to climate change / J.S. Schepers and J.M. Lynch
  • Impacts of climate change on forest soil carbon : principles, factors, models, uncertainties / M. Reichstein
  • Direct effects of elevated carbon dioxide on forest tree productivity / D.F. Karnosky, M. Tallis, J. Darbah and G. Taylor
  • Impacts of climate change on temperate forests and interaction with management / D. Loustau, J. Ogée, E. Dufrêne, M. Déqué, J.-L. Dupouey, V. Badeau, N. Viovy, P. Ciais, M.-L. Desprez-Loustau, A. Roques, I. Chuine and F. Mouillot
  • Forest responses to global change in North America : interacting forces define a research agenda / A.M. Solomon and P.H. Freer-Smith
  • National forest monitoring systems : purposes, options and status / P. Holmgren and L-G. Marklund
  • Conservation of biodiversity in boreal forests : the Russian experience / V. Teplyakov
  • International forest policy and options for climate change forest policy in developing countries / S. Jauregui
  • Addressing deforestation and forest degradation through international policy / G. Badiozamani
  • Risks and uncertainties / W. Harper and R.S. Swift
  • Governance and climate change /M.G. Sangster and M. Dudley
  • Response of the forestry sector / M.S.J. Broadmeadow and J-M. Carnus
  • Commercial and project-based responses and associated research initiatives in the forest sector / P.J. Hanson and W.A. Kurz
  • Forests and climate change : conclusions and the way forward / T.J.D. Rollinson.