The forests handbook . Volume 2 Applying forest science for sustainable management [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Julian Evans

• Record Nr.: UNISA996202105603316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, USA, : Blackwell Science, c2001
• ISBN: 1-281-32088-9; 9786611320881; 0-470-75707-8; 0-470-75683-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EvansJulian <1946->
• Disciplina: 333.75; 634.9
• Soggetti: Forests and forestry; Agriculture
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: The Forests Handbook: Applying Forest Science for Sustainable Management; Contents; List of contributors; Preface to Volume 1; Preface to Volume 2; Acknowledgements; 1 The History and Impact of Forest Management; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 Environmentalist pseudo-histories; 1.1.2 Forestry profession pseudo-history; 1.1.3 Definition of forest management; 1.1.4 Forest management typology; 1.2 Studying forest management history; 1.2.1 Evidence for woodland management in prehistoric Britain; 1.2.2 Recent advances in forest history; 1.2.3 Problems in finding and interpreting the evidence; 1.3 The history of forest cover1.3.1 Early human influence on forest cover: fire and hunting; 1.3.2 Before farming: producing food by keeping forests in check?; 1.4 From forest use to forest management; 1.4.1 Forest and tree use in prehistory; 1.4.2 Why manage forests? Why not?; 1.4.3 When does use become management?; 1.5 Forest management by non-professionals; 1.5.1 Introduction; 1.5.2 Neolithic forest management in Central Europe; 1.5.3 Sacred groves in classical Eurasia; 1.5.4 Beyond mere subsistence: the value of forests in early ; medieval Britain and late medieval Normandy; 1.5.5 Intensive forest management by farmers in late nineteenth century China1.5.6 Beating the foresters at their own game: Shorea javanica forests planted by farmers in Sumatra; 1.6 Forest management by professionals; 1.6.1 Repressive roots: protecting the king's forests against the people in medieval England; 1.6.2 The deep roots of modern silviculture; 1.6.3 Oberwolfach: from Femelwald to chessboard forestry and back; 1.6.4 Operation successful patient died: the Malayan Uniform System; 1.6.5 Seeing the broadleaved trees for the conifer forest: participatory forest restoration in Nepal; 1.7 The impact of forest management on forests1.7.1 Biodiversity loss through discontinuing forest management practices; 1.8 Conclusions: leaving the margins of history; 1.8.1 The forestry profession: getting better with age?; 1.8.2 Devising forest policies that work; 1.8.3 Forestry development aid: learning to overcome Euro-professionalism; 1.8.4 Let a thousand forests flourish; Part 1: Sustaining Forest Influences; 2 Forest Reserves Parks and Wilderness: An Australian Perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Worldwide status of parks and reserves; 2.2.1 A global perspective; 2.2.2 Australian national parks and conservation reserves2.3 A short history of forestry in Australia; 2.4 Comprehensive regional forest assessments; 2.4.1 Regional forest assessments and agreements; 2.4.2 Outcomes of the Tasmanian Forest Assessment Process; 2.5 Wilderness and forest management; 2.6 Wilderness assessment and identification; 2.6.1 Wilderness assessment in the comprehensive forest: assessment process; 2.6.2 Assessment criteria; 2.7 A new approach to wilderness assessment; 2.7.1 The Brogo Wilderness Assessment Programme; 2.8 Summary; 3 Forests as Protection from Natural Hazards; 3.1 What is a protection forest?
• Sommario/riassunto: The future of the world's forests is at the forefront of environmental debate. Rising concerns over the effects of deforestation and climate change are highlighting the need both to conserve and manage existing forests and woodland through sustainable forestry practices. The Forests Handbook, written by an international team of both scientists and practitioners, presents an integrated approach to forests and forestry, applying our present understanding of forest science to management practices, as a basis for achieving sustainability. Volume One presents an overview of the world's forests

Brecht on art and politics / / Bertolt Brecht ; edited by Thomas Kuhn and Steve Giles ; part 5 edited by Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts and Peter Davies ; translations by Laura Bradley, Steve Giles and Tom Kuhn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826907303321
• Autore: Brecht Bertolt <1898-1956, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] : , : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, , 2003; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-4742-4333-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Disciplina: 832.912; 832/.912
• 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 indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General Introduction and Acknowledgements; Part One: Early Writings and Polemics 1914-1928; Introduction; 1 Extracts from the 'Augsburg War Letters'; 2 From the 1920 Notebooks; 3 On Habitual Patriotism; 4 On Expressionism and Dadaism; 5 On German Literature; 6 Mood and Opinion; 7 Let's Get Back to Detective Novels!; 8 On Being a Suitable Spectator; 9 On Art and Socialism; 10 Literary Judgements; 11 An Argument with Thomas Mann; 12 Challenging Bourgeois Culture; 13 On Poetry; 14 On Politics and Art; 15 Republication Forbidden!; Part Two: Culture and Society 1927-1933Introduction; 16 The Piscator Experiment; 17 Primacy of the Apparatus; 18 New Dramatic Writing; 19 The Individual's Experience of the Apparatus in the Foreground; 20 Conversation about Classics; 21 Defence of the Lyric Poet Gottfried Benn; 22 Suspicion of a New Tendency in Modern Philosophy; 23 Theory of Pedagogies; 24 On New Criticism; 25 Ideas and Things; 26 Who Needs a World-View?; 27 On the Function of Thought; 28 What is Progress?; 29 Dialectics; 30 On the Critique of Ideas; 31 Theses on the Theory of Superstructure; 32 Key Points in Korsch, pp. 37 and 5433 Use of Truth; 34 Einstein-Freud; Part Three: Nazism and Anti-Fascism 1933-1939; Introduction; 35 Extracts from 'Unpolitical Letters'; 36 Fascist Slogans; 37 On ; Restoring the Truth; 38 In the Fight Against Injustice Even Weak Weapons Are of Use; 39 Five Difficulties in Writing the Truth; 40 A Necessary Observation on the Struggle Against Barbarism; 41 On the Question of Whether Hitler Is Being Honest; 42 From the English Letters; 43 Speech at the Second International Writers' Congress for the Defence of Culture; 44 Platform for Left-wing Intellectuals; 45 Speech on the Power of Resistance of Reason46 Speech on the Question Why Such Large Parts of the German People Support Hitler's Politics; 47 On My Attitude to the Soviet Union; 48 On the Moscow Trials; 49 The Greatest of All Artists; 50 Why are the Petty Bourgeoisie and Even the Proletariat Threatening to Turn to Fascism?; 51 On the Theatricality of Fascism; 52 The Last Word; Part Four: Realism and Formalism 1938-1940; Introduction; 53 The Expressionism Debate; 54 Breadth and Variety of the Realist Mode of Writing; 55 Socialist Realism; 56 The Struggle Against Formalism; 57 On Non-representational Painting58 Notes on the Realist Mode of Writing; 59 The Crime Novel; Part Five: Brecht and German Socialism 1942-1956; Introduction; 60 On the Declaration of the 26 United Nations; 61 The Other Germany: 1943; 62 Report on the Situation of Germans in Exile; 63 Where I Live; 64 Statement to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, 1947; 65 Conversations with Young Intellectuals; 66 Bringing the World Peace at Last; 67 The Emblem of the Berliner Ensemble; 68 The Arts in Upheaval; 69 Concerning the Accusation of Formalism; 70 Notes on the Discussion about Formalism
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, radically engaged with social, political and cultural processes. Each section begins with a short essay by the editors introducing and summarising Brecht