Tropical Forest Ecosystem Services in Improving Livelihoods For Local Communities

This edited book covers major importance of tropical forest diversity and its values to vegetation, wildlife, and the local community. It addresses the current issues and opportunities in the Southeast Asia’s tropical forests. This book lays the groundwork for a better understanding of tropical forest ecosystem services. Ecosystem services has four concepts: provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. In an era of rapid population growth and increasing pressure on tropical natural resources, ecosystem services have become central to the discussion of climate change mitigation. The values of tropical forest ecosystem services deserve to be the highlighted when it comes to shaping responsible behaviors towards sustainable development goals (SDGs). This book is of interest and useful to researchers and academics teaching in the field of tropical forest conservation, tropical ecosystems, tropical products technology, ecotourism, forest plantation management, bio industrial economy, agroforestry business and marketing. Professionals, foresters, industrial entrepreneurs, ecologists, and a valuable source of reference to the relevant researchers and students in the region.

• | Author: Zaiton Samdin, Norfaryanti Kamaruddin, Sheriza Mohd Razali
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Dec 14, 2022
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 9811933413
• | ISBN-13: 9789811933417