Forest policy for private forestry : global and regional challenges / / editors, Lawrence Teeter, Benjamin Cashore, Daowei Zhang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780350603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub., c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-82984-2; 9786610829842; 0-85199-775-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): TeeterLawrence Dale; CashoreBenjamin William <1964->; ZhangDaowei
• Disciplina: 634.9/068
• Soggetti: Forest management; Tree farms; Forest policy
• 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: Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Forestry in the Long Sweep of History (Keynote Address); 2 International Dialogue on Forests: Impact on National Policies and Practices (Keynote Address); 3 New Trends in Forest Policy and Management: an Emerging Postmodern Approach?; 4 Utilizing Issue Network Analyses to Assess Potential Policy Implications of Sustainable Forest Management in the United States; 5 Private Sector Participation on Public Forestlands: Challenges and Policy Issues; 6 Planning Private Native Forest Use in Australia; 7 The Three Impediments: Time, Fire and Taxes (Keynote Address)8 Global Initiatives, Public Policies and Private Forestry in Bolivia: Lessons to Date and Remaining Challenges; 9 Today and Tomorrow of Private Forestry in Central and Eastern Europe; 10 Redesigning Forest Policy Tools Under a Transitional Economy Setting; 11 Private Land and Public Goods: Process Lessons from Habitat Conservation Planning; 12 Ensuring the Application of Sound Forest Practices on Private Forests: Challenges Facing the Design and Implementation of State Compliance Monitoring Programmes; 13 Spatial Assessment of a Voluntary Forest Conservation Programme in North Carolina 14 Policy Developments Affecting Demand, Supply and International Trade of Forest Products: a European Perspective (Keynote Address); 15 Private Forest Management and Investment in the US South: Alternative Future Scenarios; 16 An Economy-wide Assessment of a Forest Carbon Policy in the USA*; 17 Forestry Implications of Agricultural Short-rotation Woody Crops in the USA; 18 Management of the Forest Biodiversity: Feasibility, Efficiency and Limits of a Contractual Regulation; 19 Case Studies Examining the Economic Impacts of New Forest Practices Regulations on NIPF Landowners 20 Effect of the Federal Estate Tax on Rural Landholdings in the USA; 21 Global Trade Liberalization and Forest Product Trade Patterns; 22 Gaining Leverage: NGO Influence on Certification Institutions in the Forest Products Sector; 23 Company Choices on Sustainable Forestry Forest Certification: the Case of JD Irving, Ltd; 24 Improving Forest Management Through the Supply Chain: an Assessment of Wood Procurement Management Systems in the Forest Products Industry; 25 Perspectives on Forest Certification: a Survey Examining Differences Among the US Forest Sectors' Views of their Forest Certification Alternatives 26 Certification: a Comparison of Perceptions of Corporate and Non-industrial Private Forestland Owners in Louisiana; 27 Forest Certification in the Heart of Dixie: a Survey of Alabama Landowners; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: There is a great concern about the sustainability of forestry and the contribution of private forestry towards this aim. It is therefore important to develop effective policies to support or shape private forestry. This book includes a selection of revised papers from a conference on the subject.

Beginning Apache Spark 2 : With Resilient Distributed Datasets, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming and Spark Machine Learning library / / by Hien Luu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910300752003321
• Autore: Luu Hien
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : Apress : , : Imprint : Apress, , 2018
• ISBN: 9781484235799; 1484235797
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2018.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 393 p. 86 illus.)
• Disciplina: 005.7
• Soggetti: Big data; Java (Computer program language); Data mining; Open source software; Computer programming; Big Data; Java; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Open Source
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction to Apache Spark -- 2. Working with Apache Spark -- 3. Resilient Distributed Dataset -- 4. Spark SQL - Foundation -- 5. Spark SQL - Advanced -- 6. Spark Streaming -- 7. Spark Streaming Advanced -- 8. Machine Learning with Spark.
• Sommario/riassunto: Develop applications for the big data landscape with Spark and Hadoop. This book also explains the role of Spark in developing scalable machine learning and analytics applications with Cloud technologies. Beginning Apache Spark 2 gives you an introduction to Apache Spark and shows you how to work with it. Along the way, you’ll discover resilient distributed datasets (RDDs); use Spark SQL for structured data; and learn stream processing and build real-time applications with Spark Structured Streaming. Furthermore, you’ll learn ; the fundamentals of Spark ML for machine learning and much more. After you read this book, you will have the fundamentals to become proficient in using Apache Spark and know when and how to apply it to your big data applications. You will: Understand Spark unified data processing platform Use and manipulate RDDs Deal with structured data using Spark SQL Build real-time applications using Spark Structured Streaming Develop intelligent applications with the Spark Machine Learning library.