Forest management and ecological engineering

Abstract

Forestry is a part of Ecological Engineering, for which it could be an archetype. It has created its own tools for ecosystem installation, steering and renewing, through interventions targeted on specific compartments of these complex ecosystems. It has also promoted a two-levelled adaptive management system: management plans and silviculture. These tools may be and should be developed for a cross-scales ecosystem adaptive management, by bringing enough flexibility to the rigid frames inherited from the past forest management, focused on the preservation of timber resource.