Sustainable Management Flashcards
1
Q
Aims of sustainability?
A
- persevere the environment
- maintain/increase the biodiversty
- ensure resources available to future generations
- allow humans in all societies to live comfortably
- enable low income countries to develop through exploiting their natural resources
2
Q
what is small-scale timber production?
A
coppicing: provides a sustainable supply of wood
cut stem close to the ground and new shoots grow from the cut surface and mature into narrow stems
3
Q
what is pollarding?
A
cut the trunk higher up which prevents deer from eating the new shoots
