Author: Publisher:
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Management of the Forests of Tropical America
Author: Management of the Forests of Tropical America
Author: Management and Conservation of Closed Forests in Tropical America
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251031476
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Mahogany of Tropical America
Author: Frank Bruce LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mahogany
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Forest Production for Tropical America
Author: Frank Howard WadsworthPublisher:
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Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The World's Tropical Forests
Author: U.S. Interagency Task Force on Tropical ForestsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas
Author: Arturo Sanchez-AzofeifaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466512016
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Under threat from natural and human disturbance, tropical dry forests are the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics, yet they rarely receive the scientific or conservation attention they deserve. In a comprehensive overview, Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas: Ecology, Conservation, and Management examines new approaches for data sampling and analysis using remote sensing technology, discusses new ecological and econometric methods, and critically evaluates the socio-economic pressures that these forest are facing at the continental and national levels. The book includes studies from Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil that provide in-depth knowledge about the function, status, and conservation efforts of these endangered forests. It presents key elements of synthesis from standardized work conducted across all sites. This unique contribution provides new light in terms of these forests compared to each other not only from an ecological perspective but also in terms of the pressures that they are facing, and their respective responses. Written by experts from a diversity of fields, this reference brings together the many facets of function, use, heritage, and future potential of these forests. It presents an important and exciting synthesis of many years of work across countries, disciplines, and cultures. By standardizing approaches for data sampling and analysis, the book gives readers comparison information that cannot be found anywhere else given the high level of disparity that exists in the current literature.
Progress Report of the Forestry Support Program (FSP)
Author: Forestry Support Program (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forestry projects
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Mapping the West European Left
Author: Perry AndersonPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860912132
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Organized as a series of tightly linked, comparative assessments, Mapping the West European Left provides a guide to the state of the left in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain. While all the essays are detailed historical compositions setting recent crises and dilemmas in a longer perspective reaching back into the postwar settlement they articulate original insights into the contemporary political conjuncture. Why did Swedish social democracy lose hegemony and direction while its Norwegian counterpart showed unexpected resilience? What was the background to the Danish rebellion against Maastricht? What are the prospects for the SPD and the Greens in post-unification Germany? Should the British Labour Party embrace electoral reform? What propelled the French Socialist Party from triumph to disaster? And why did the Italian left fail to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of the Christian Democrats? Behind the questions explored by the contributors to Mapping the West European Left lie deeper issues concerning the future of radical politics in Europe after the repudiation of Keynsianism and the end of communism. With the individual country analyses synthesized by the editors in a concise and comprehensive introductory essay, this book provides key pointers to the social forces and ideological platforms that offer lines of advance to the left today. Contributors- Tobias Abse (Italy), Patrick Camiller (Spain), Adne Cappelen (Norway), Niels Finn Christiansen (Denmark), Jan Fagerberg (Norway), Jane Jenson (France), Peter Mair (Britain), Lars Mjoset (Norway), Stephen Padgett (Germany), William Paterson (Germany), Jonas Pontusson (Sweden), George Ross (France), Bent Sofus Tranoy (Norway).
The Forest Landscape Restoration Handbook
Author: Stewart MaginnisPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849773017
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Forest loss and degradation have caused a decline in the quality of ecosystem services around the world. But fixing the problem takes more than just planting trees; practitioners increasingly realize that a landscape approach is essential. This handbook, authored and edited by international authorities in the field of forestry, is the first practical guide to using forest landscape restoration (FLR) to repair the damage done to forest lands by poor land management practice. Using research backed by respected institutions such as ITTO and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), it explains how to increase the resilience of landscapes and the communities they support through FLR. The main aim of FLR is not to re-establish pristine forest, even if this were possible; rather, the objective is to make landscapes more resilient and thereby keep future management options open. It also aims to support communities as they strive to increase and sustain the benefits they derive from land management. This book explains the concept of FLR and guides the reader through the steps that must be taken to put it into practice. It is an indispensable aid for practitioners in all aspects of forestry and natural resource management.