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Carbon Sequestration and Its Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
Wiley 2013; US$ 124.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series . For carbon sequestration the issues of monitoring, risk assessment, and verification of carbon content and storage efficacy are perhaps the most uncertain. Yet these issues are also the most critical challenges facing the broader context of carbon sequestration... more...
Institutions, Sustainability, and Natural Resources
Springer 2006; US$ 199.99Provides a critique of neoclassical economic approaches and their limitations with respect to sustainability. This book discusses theoretical perspectives about appropriate institutions for sustainable forest management, markets for environmental services, deforestation and specialization, the Kyoto Protocol, and international trade. more...
Guidelines for Labour Inspection in Forestry
ILO Publications 2006; US$ 22.95Describes the labour issues encountered in forestry work and provides a general introduction to managing labour standards in forestry. Sets out guidelines for the implementation of international labour standards and for organizing labour inspections and assessing compliance. more...
Does Sustainable Tourism Offer Solutions for the Protection of the Amazon Rainforest?
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 199.00This WHATT theme issue is dedicated to the Amazon in South America, an amazingly unique tourist destination in the World.The issue is one of the key outcomes of an array of activities organized by the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) to coincide with Destination Amazonia Year 2009 teams comprising representatives from government,... more...
Aménagement écosystémique en forêt boréale
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 2008; US$ 51.75Ce livre propose une synthèse des principaux concepts écologiques qui appuient la mise en ouvre de l'aménagement écosystémique. Il présente une revue des grands régimes de perturbation qui façonnent la dynamique naturelle de la forêt boréale et des exemples provenant de différentes régions... more...
Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia. Each chapter covers a major topic in the evolutionary biology of tropical rain forest trees and how management systems interact with these natural dynamics. Authors provide... more...
Mountains and Northern Forests
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 15.95Both the mountains and northern forests of British Columbia are magical kingdoms shaped by cold and snow. They also form the landscape that covers most of the province and that offers countless spectacu-lar destinations for campers, hikers and other outdoor enthusiasts. Adapted and expanded from sections of the best-selling British Columbia?A Natural... more...
Bull of the Woods
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 15.95Logger, seaman, hotelier, politician, millionaire? Gordon Gibson was a tough man, a fast friend and a hellish enemy. Bull of the Woods is a tale of guts and raw courage from a Canadian Horatio Alger?a man big enough to tell his life story with the same brutal honesty with which he lived it. In a skeptical age when Canadian heroes are our of fashion,... more...
Germany's Nature
Rutgers University Press 2005; US$ 54.95Germany boasts one of the strongest environmental records in the world. The Rhine River is cleaner than it has been in decades, recycling is considered a civic duty, and German manufacturers of pollution-control technology export their products around the globe. Yet, little has been written about the country's remarkable environmental history,... more...
The Embattled Wilderness
University of Georgia Press 2013; US$ 24.95Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapesand one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America, it is a haven of biological richness within an ever-expanding desert created by mountaintop removal mining. Written by two people... more...









