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Field Guide: Fire in Dry Eucalypt Forestby JS Gould; WL McCaw; NP Cheney; PF Ellis; S Matthews
CSIRO Publishing 2008; US$ 16.95Developed to provide a systematic method for assessing fuel hazard and predicting potential fire behaviour in dry eucalypt forest. more...
Reframing Deforestationby James Fairhead; Melissa Leach
Routledge 1998; US$ 71.95Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of destruction wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated and global analyses have unfairly stigmatized them. more...
Economics of Deforestationby Sven Wunder
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 130.00Tropical forests are disappearing at an unaltered pace, giving way to alternative land uses. This book gives an economic perspective on deforestation. Following a survey of different deforestation definitions, theories and empirical evidence, a case-study of Ecuador provides a versatile historical picture of factors affecting forest loss throughout different periods, regions and ecosystems. It is shown that policy and market failures alone cannot explain rapid deforestation; decision-makers follow a composite economic rationale in their continuous clearing of forests which can only be counteracted by concerted action. more...
The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazonby Lykke E. Andersen; Clive W. J. Granger; Eustaquio J. Reis; Diana Weinhold; Sven Wunder
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 99.00Making use of a uniquely rich data set the authors analyze the ecological and economic impacts of a range of policies and examine whether the economic benefits of land clearing surpass the ecological costs. Their conclusions are surprising. more...
Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalismby Gregory Allen Barton; Alan R. H. Baker; Richard Dennis; Deryck Holdworth
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 40.00What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India. The empire forestry movement spread rapidly throughout the world, and Gregory Barton's pioneering study is amongst the first to look at the origins of environmentalism in global perspective. more...
The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazonby J.S. Campari
Edward Elgar Publishing 2005; US$ 40.00This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the author is able to reject much of the 'perceived wisdom'. more...
NGOs and Environmental Policiesby David Potter
Frank Cass 1996; US$ 52.95Covering the work of non-governmental organizations in trying to change the environmental policies of governments and businesses, this study looks at field research in Asia and Africa, and relates it to theoretical issues in the academic field. more...
Forest Conservation Policyby V. Alaric Sample
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 45.00An introduction to the major issues and controversies dominating the debate over US forest policy. There are subject-indexed descriptions of the major issues and a reference of government and non-government forestry organizations at both national and regional levels. more...
Forest Firesby Phillip Nori Omi
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 55.00From killer fires to ecosystem rehabilitation, this is an exhaustive survey exploring the ecological, social and economic consequences of managing fires in United States wildland areas. more...
Indonesia's Fires and Hazeby David Glover; Timothy Jessup
International Development Research Centre 2006; US$ 25.00From September to November of 1997, raging fires in Indonesia pumped enough smoke into the air to blanket the entire region in haze, reaching as far north as southern Thailand and the Philippines, with Malaysia and Singapore being particularly affected. This book conservatively assesses the damage at US $4.5 billion, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill and India's Bhopal chemical spill combined. It looks at the causes of the fires, the physical damages that resulted, and their effects on heath, industrial production, and tourism, among others. more...









