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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463023003321

Titolo

Managing forests as complex adaptive systems : building resilience to the challenge of global change / / edited by Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann and K. David Coates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Earthscan from Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-12280-1

1-299-14844-1

1-136-33522-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Earthscan forest library

Altri autori (Persone)

CoatesK. Dave

MessierChristian C

PuettmannKlaus J

Disciplina

634.9/2

Soggetti

Forest management

Forest ecology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Managing forests as complex adaptive systems / Klaus J Puettmann -- An introduction to complexity science / Lael Parrott -- Tropical forests as complex adaptive systems / Robin l. Chazdon -- Complexity in temperate forest dynamics / Sybille Haeussler -- Exploring complexity in boreal forests / Philip J. Burton -- Forest restoration in a changing world / Meredith Cornett -- Meta-networks of fungi, fauna and flora as agents of complex adaptive systems / Suzanne Simard -- Complexity confronting tropical silviculturists / Francis Putz -- Is close-to-nature forest management in Europe compatible with managing forests as complex adaptive forest ecosystems? / Jürgen Bauhus -- Mediterranean forests:human use and complex adaptive systems / Susanna Nocentini -- Fennoscandian boreal forests as complex adaptive systems / Timo Kuuluvainen -- Management of Tasmanian eucalypt forests as complex adaptive systems / Sue Baker -- Managing tree plantations as complex adaptive systems / Alain Paquette -- A new integrative framework for understanding and managing the world forest / Christian Messier.



Sommario/riassunto

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history. Individual chapters stress different elements of these concepts based on the specific setting and expertise of the authors. Regions and authors have been selected to cover a diversity of viewpoints and emphases, from silviculture and natural forests to forest restoration, and from boreal to tropical fore

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170995603321

Titolo

Japanese women working / / edited by Janet Hunter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993

ISBN

1-134-79712-5

1-138-17821-7

1-134-79713-3

1-280-31909-7

0-203-43393-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HunterJanet

Disciplina

331.40952

Soggetti

Sexual division of labor - Japan - History - 20th century

Women - Employment - Japan - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Redundancy utilized: the economics of female domestic servants in pre-war Japan1; Chapter 3 One day at a time:work and domestic activities of urban lowerclass women in early twentiethcentury Japan; Chapter 4 Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan; Chapter 5 Female labour in the Japanese coal-mining industry; Chapter 6 Equality versus difference: the Japanese debate over 'motherhood



protection', 1915–50

Chapter 7 Japanese care assistants in hospitals, 1918–88Chapter 8 Women as bosses: perceptions of the ama and their work; Chapter 9 Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women: changing company practice; Chapter 10 The role of the professional housewife; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

An international group of historians, economists, anthropologists and management specialists examine policy towards women workers and their experinces over the course of this century in Japan.