This book presents over 40 cases of bamboo development across 22 major bamboo-industry countries and explores the knowledge gained from their successes and failures.
"e;The fate of humanity, like the fate of the earth, is tied to the fires that have made the world as we know itthe fires whose history is told as well in this book as it has ever been told before.
Regenerating Forests and Livelihoods in Nepal: A New Lease on Life documents the success story of an innovative rural development programme in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal.
Margaret Elley Felts autobiographical Gyppo Logger, originally published in 1963, tells a story almost universally overlooked in the history of the logging industry: the emergence of family-based, independent contract or "e;gyppo"e; loggers in the post-World War II timber economy, and the crucial role of women within that economy.
This large-N, three-country study of the coffee sector assesses the effectiveness of private governance by standards in promoting sustainable production.
In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops naturally.
This book introduces the principles of landscape stewardship in relation to sustainability governance, applying them to a broad range of land-use systems.
British woodlands and forests are often located on sites and in regions that are marginal for agriculture; many are at high elevations and exposed, with short growing seasons.
Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region s woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity.
Many species of fish occupying inland waters reside in watersheds that were or still are surrounded by forests and are dependent in major ways upon such cover.
An incisive examination of community forestry in a pan-national context, highlighting both the possibilities and challenges associated with its implementation.
An incisive examination of community forestry in a pan-national context, highlighting both the possibilities and challenges associated with its implementation.
This book introduces the principles of landscape stewardship in relation to sustainability governance, applying them to a broad range of land-use systems.
2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardBefore Forks, a small town on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyers Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed Logging Capital of the World and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests.
Regenerating Forests and Livelihoods in Nepal: A New Lease on Life documents the success story of an innovative rural development programme in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal.
This large-N, three-country study of the coffee sector assesses the effectiveness of private governance by standards in promoting sustainable production.
The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism.
Genética cuantitativa y selección en el mejoramiento forestal es una obra que logra organizar desde los conceptos hasta la utilización de los métodos y procedimientos de la mejora genética moderna, con énfasis en el mejoramiento de especies forestales, pero de aplicación general en el campo agroforestal.
