Forestry industry

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees.

This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.

Bergahornweiden sind eine alte, vom Menschen geschaffene Kulturlandschaft der Alpen.

This book explores how the transnational legal process for REDD+ has affected human rights in developing countries.

In this book, an ornithologist and a forester have combined their skills to try and tease out the real facts behind the various arguments on forestry.

Back in PrintWorld Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved.

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.

Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science.

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.

For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City.

Dictionary for Managing Trees in Urban Environments is a comprehensive list of terms used in the universal management of urban trees.

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry.

Our understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in the last twenty years.

Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam.

Poplars and willows form an important component of forestry and agricultural systems, providing a wide range of wood and non-wood products.

Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection.

The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior.

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries.

Toward a Sustainable Whaling Regime

Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees.

Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom.

Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K.

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions.

This is a rich and many-faceted personal and business biography of the main figure in the third generation of Weyerhaeusers, who led the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company through the difficult and decisive years from 1933 to 1956.

Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, Baka, Bakwle, and Mbomam--in the Lobk forest region of southeastern Cameroon.

This book explains the financial appraisal of capital budgeting projects.

This book introduces the principles of landscape stewardship in relation to sustainability governance, applying them to a broad range of land-use systems.

Comprehensive exploration of how land use interacts with the atmosphere and carbon cycle, for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

From the interactive clockwork world of geology, tides, Northwest weather, and snow, to the hidden roles of dirt, stream life, and mosses and lichens, Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Dietrich explores the natural splendors of the Pacific Northwest.

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry.

How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas.

Australia’s experience in community-based environmental repair is unique in the world, with no shortage of analysis by bureaucrats, academics and environmentalists.

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.

Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation.

All students, practitioners and researchers in forestry and related disciplines need a good grounding in statistics and probability.

2011 Winner of the Hal K.

Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnams most important economic regions.

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive.

Every winter settlers of the U.

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.

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

An incisive examination of community forestry in a pan-national context, highlighting both the possibilities and challenges associated with its implementation.

The Rhine River is Europes most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare.

In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers.

Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "e;composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist.

Established in 1905, The Forest Service is steeped in history, conflict, strong personalities (including Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot), and the challenges of managing 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands.