Author: Frank Howard WadsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Forest Production for Tropical America
Author: Frank Howard WadsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Management of the Forests of Tropical America
Author: Why Forests? Why Now?
Author: Frances SeymourPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 1933286865
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.
Management of the Forests of Tropical America
Author: Timbers of Tropical America
Author: Samuel James RecordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The countries and their forests. The trees and their woods.
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
Technologies to Sustain Tropical Forest Resources
Author: Futures of tropical production forests
Author: Francis E PutzPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6023870163
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Forests are landscape-embedded complex systems with fates determined by multitudes of changing and interacting factors that are sectoral and extra-sectoral, biophysical and political, predictable and chaotic. The diversity of forest states (e.g. secondary, degraded, fragmented, invaded and managed) and the fact that none of these states is permanent gives reason for hope; even deforestation need not be permanent. With so many forest values recognized to different degrees by different people, the future of tropical production forests is likely to represent an ever-changing mosaic of a gradient of forested-type landscapes. To assure that this future is as environmentally, socioeconomically and politically sound as possible, researchers need to synthesize and evaluate what is known and then build on that knowledge while they continue learning. There is a critical need for interdisciplinary research at appropriate scales with the best designs possible to capture the impacts of relevant silvicultural treatments on the full range of response variables
Changing Tropical Forests
Author: Harold K. SteenPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312369
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Changing Tropical Forests begins with an overview of the history of deforestation in tropical America and the tasks facing Latin American environmental historians. Based on proceedings of a 1991 conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forest History Group in Costa Rica, the contributors offer detailed accounts of the enivornmental history of specific forest conditions, grasslands, and changing ecosystems of Costa Rica, Mexico, Surinam, and Brazil. the role of human intervention in this process of change is also discussed. Contributors. William Balée, James R. Barborak, Peter Boomgaard, Larissa V. Brown, Gerardo Budowski, John Dargavel, Warren Dean, Silvia del Amo R., Elizabeth Graham, J. Régis Guillaumon, Rhena Hoffmann, Sally P. Horn, Sebastião Kengen, Herman W. Konrad, Mary Pamela Lehmann, Robert D. Leier, Murdo J. MacLeod, M. Patricia Marchak, Elinor G. K. Melville, David M. Pendergast, Susan M. Pierce, Leslie E. Sponsel, Richard P. Tucker, Terry West
The Causes of Tropical Deforestation
Author: Katrina BrownPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774805117
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Presents econometric analysis of tropical deforestation, quantifying and examining its local and underlying global causes, with discussion of factors such as population, debt, income and poverty, the timber trade, and agricultural development, and regional and country case studies focusing on Asia and Latin America. Of interest to students and professionals in economics, environmental science, and development studies. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR