Forestry industry

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

This book offers an up-to-date account of important crops grown worldwide, focusing on their evolutionary aspects and health benefits.

The third edition of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks is an updated and expanded edition that explores oak forests as responsive ecosystems.

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.

Each fall and spring, millions of birds travel the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the four major North American bird migration routes.

Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical AssociationWinner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History AssociationWinner of the 2013 John Lyman Book Award in the Naval and Maritime Science and Technology category from the North American Society for Oceanic HistoryFor centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery.

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender.

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

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

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.

When a mining claim on a crumbling cliff of burnt-rose quartzite lured naturalist Jack Nisbet to the northeastern corner of Washington State in 1970, he began a search for an understanding of that open country through stories about the people who lived there and the everyday events he shared with them.

"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.

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

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.

Toward a Sustainable Whaling Regime

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.

Clark Sorensen presents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groups and an analysis of their adaption to the changes brought about by Korea's rapid industrialization.

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

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.

Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development.

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.

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

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.

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

Timber is a vital resource that is all around us.

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.

Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed.

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.

Because of the long-standing Canada-U.

This large-N, three-country study of the coffee sector assesses the effectiveness of private governance by standards in promoting sustainable production.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, fish in the Great Lakes and Puget Sound, seals in the North Pacific, and birds across North America faced a common threat: over harvesting that threatened extinction for many species.

Howard Zahniser (19061964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat?

Each fall and spring, millions of birds travel the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the four major North American bird migration routes.

Conservation was the first nationwide political movement in American history to grapple with environmental problems like waste, pollution, resource exhaustion, and sustainability.

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

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.

The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans place in the universe can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society.

Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development.

Toward a Sustainable Whaling Regime

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

An illustrated overview of the sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues surrounding their distribution and demand.