Short Rotation Forestry for Industrial and Rural Development

by D.K. Khurana, Kartar S. Verma, Lars Christersson

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This book is a compendium of 79 articles which were presented during an IUFRO International Conference on World Perspective on Short Rotation Forestry for Industrial and Rural Development, held at Solan. The book deals with various aspects of short rotation forestry, like silviculture, physiology, irrigation effects, productivity potential, processing and production, propagation techniques, genetic improvement and genetic diversity to the role of short rotation species in agro-forestry. Rather short rotation species currently being used in agro-forestry find major mention and treatment in the compendium. The book will be most relevant to the people working with agro-forestry species, which invariably have a short rotation period, foresters and NGOâ€™s working with plantation programmes for rural development and joint forest management and to universities and institutions dealing with forestry species.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR D.K. Khurana

D.K. Khurana born 1950, is Senior Scientist/Professor in the Department of Forest Tree Improvement and Genetic Resources, and Secretary, Indian Society of Tree Scientists at College of Forestry, YSPUHF, Solan. He has been involved with the genetic improvement and breeding of Poplars, a short rotation species in India for last 30 years. Widely travelled throughout the world with post doctoral from University of California, Berkeley, he has already co-edited and edited nine books on forestry related topics and is also the Chief Editor of Journal of Tree Sciences and Co-editor of Silvae Genetica.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kartar S. Verma

Kartar S. Verma is an Agro-forestry Scientist in the Department of Silviculture and Agro-forestry, College of Forestry, YSPUHF, Solan. He has to his credit over fifty research papers in National and international journals, book chapters in addition to scientific and review articles. He has guided many M. Sc and Ph.D students in agro-forestry from India and abroad. His major research interests are agro-forestry systems management, watershed management, nursery technology, cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants and climate change research issues confronting (IUFRO), Vienna (Austria) as officer of different working parties and presently heading "IUFRO RG 1.03 Short Rotation Forestry" as the Chairman.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lars Christersson

Lars Christersson, born 1934, Ph.D. in Plant Physiology in 1973, docent 1974, Professor in Short Rotation Forestry in 1989, Professor Emeritus and retired in 1999. He was one of the founders of the Department of Short Rotation Forestry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden. He has written more than one hundred scientific and popular scientific papers and books. He has also worked actively in different boards of IEA, IPC and IUFRO.