Language: Swedish
Every generation should ask itself the question of how society can develop. But for the forest, each generation also needs to ask: How should future generations manage the forest's resources?
For the forests people shape today will be used by the as yet unborn in a time no one now alive knows anything about. In A Forest of Possibilities, the author Ola Engelmark seeks answers to how the timelessness and the values of the place can guide the forest's decision-makers to manage forests beyond today's time-bound perspective of land clearing. Today, forestry is driven by large-scale efficiency, technology and economics. It is governed by words such as orbital period and minimum harvesting age. With this comes consequences that go beyond biological diversity and the ecosystem. Engelmark gives examples here, asks questions that large forest managers and industry do not ask. He wants to inspire new actions, new entrepreneurship and makes cuts in different forests, and meets people with different forestry perspectives. He approaches the questions with respect, knowledge and an open mind. You can continue to search for the answers so that they suit you in your forest life.
The author Ola Engelmark is a biologist and forest owner himself. He knows most about the forest's diversity and the importance of a functioning ecosystem, something he practices in his own forestry company. The book is richly illustrated.
"Ola Engelmark believes in the ideas that can come from roughly 300,000 individual forest owners. What new demands should be placed on future forestry? He calls for new thinking: 'Recognizing the forest, not just the trees'. His recipe is dialogue and knowledge and the tone trying, curious and optimistic" Mittmedia
Product information
Author: Ola Engelmark
Designer: Ludvig Eriksson
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9789173318877
Language: Swedish
Weight: 430 grams
Released: 2018
Publisher: Carlsson
Pages: 149