Australian Forestry - March 2003 66(1)

This special issue contains papers based on selected presentations at the conference Prospects for Australian Forest Plantations 2002, together with an overview compiled after the conference.
   
Article

Page

Australian forest plantations: an overview of industry, environmental, and community issues and benefits
Adam Gerrand, Rodney J. Keenan, Peter Kanowski and Richard Stanton

1

Determining plantation prospects: parameters and purposes
John Dargavel

9

Plantations and sustainability science: the environmental and political settings
Jason Alexandra and Andrew Campbell

12

Prospects for Australian plantations: business perspectives
Nick Roberts

20

Conditions for building social capital and community well-being through plantation forestry
Stewart Lockie

24

The potential availability of plantation roundwood
Ian Ferguson, Ray Spencer, Mellissa Wood, Julian Fox, Tom Baker, Des Stackpole and Ian Wild

30

International market prospects and the changing structure of the Australian plantation industry
Mark Kelly and Lyndall Bull

37

Science and technology for sustainable development of plantation forests
E.K. Sadanandan Nambiar

43

Changes in markets, technology and resources: prospects for wood-based products
Peter Vinden

51

Plantations, river flows and river salinity
Robert Vertessy, L. Zhang and W.R. Dawes

55

Plantation forests and biodiversity conservation
D.B. Lindenmayer, R.J. Hobbs and D. Salt

62

Plantations and sustainable rural communities
Jacki Schirmer and Matthew Tonts

67