Forests and society : sustainability and life cycles of forests in human landscapes / / edited by K.A. Vogt [and six others]
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Forests and society : sustainability and life cycles of forests in human landscapes / / edited by K.A. Vogt [and six others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : CABI Pub., , [2007] |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.75 |
| Soggetto topico: | Forests and forestry - Social aspects |
| Forests and forestry - Environmental aspects | |
| Sustainable forestry | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-323) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Contributing Authors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Historical Perceptions and Uses of Forests""; ""The History of Reverence for the Forest""; ""The History of Fear and the Forest""; ""History of Forest Exploitation""; ""Forests and the formation of early civilizations""; ""European colonization and industrialization period (1200�1700 CE)""; ""Wooden Ships, Colonization and Controlling Access to Wood""; ""The Period of Forest Loss and Exploitation in North America (1770�1960 CE)""; ""Conservation and Regulations of Forest Uses"" |
| ""Ancient civilizations (2500 BCE�700 CE)""""The Middle Ages and monks in Europe begin active forest management (500�1500 CE)""; ""The Portuguese audit forest uses: the roots of forest certification (1200�1300 CE)""; ""France becomes a dominant sea and economic power in Europe: building a navy while vigilant over forests (1665�1683 CE)""; ""French introduce scientific knowledge into forest reserves to reduce soil erosion (early to late 1700s CE)"" | |
| ""Forestry becomes a systematic science and a profession: links among German forestry, sustainable teak management in India, university training of professional foresters and the United States conservation movement (1850�mid 1900s CE)""""The maturation of models to conserve forests (1850�1900 CE)""; ""The role of the United States government in forestry (1900 CE to present)""; ""Search for Forest Resources and Scarcity after Over-exploitation at Regional Scales"" | |
| ""Global Scarcity Acknowledged in the Twentieth Century but also the Need for Verification of Sustainable Management of Forests""""A Trend towards More Intensive Management and Planting of Exotic Species in Commercially Managed Forests""; ""Case 1.1. A History of Forest Protected Areas""; ""2. Global Societies and Forest Legacies Creating Today�s Forest Landscapes""; ""Human Uses of Terrestrial Global Systems""; ""Characteristics of Forest Biomes Determined their Utility for Human Survival in the Past""; ""Where are Forests in the World Today?"" | |
| ""Current Global Consumptive Uses of Forest Materials""""Fuel wood""; ""Paper products""; ""Industrial round wood""; ""What is the Current Capacity for Sustainable Production of Goods and Services from Forests, Given Past Human Uses?""; ""Forest Supply Capacity Increases by Linking Forests to Energy Production""; ""Case 2.1. Nepal, Community Forests and Rural Sustainability""; ""Case 2.2. The Impact of Indigenous People on Oak�Pine Forests of the Central Himalaya""; ""Case 2.3. Dead-wood Politics: Fuel Wood, Forests and Society in the Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary"" | |
| ""Case 2.4. Icelanders and their Forest History: a Thousand-year-old Human and Nature History Controlling Resilience and Species Composition in Forests Today"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book provides a broad-ranging textbook on the relationships between forests and society. It discusses the ways in which society can interact with forest landscapes without adversely affecting their sustainability. Topics covered include attitudes to, and uses of forests, the creation of today's forest landscapes, the impact of humans on forests, and forest sustainability and human health. The book also examines emerging issues in forestry such as possible solutions to balancing societies' needs with forest sustainability, managing forests in the urban-wildland interface, and the impact of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Forests and society |
| ISBN: | 1-280-73602-X |
| 9786610736027 | |
| 1-84593-111-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910446346303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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