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Sustaining Forests
World Bank Publications 2004; US$ 14.99The World Banks Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Banks proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Banks 1991 Forestry Strategy, and was developed on the basis of... more...
Negotiated Learning
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 45.95The first book to critically examine how monitoring can be an effective tool in participatory resource management, Negotiated Learning draws on the first-hand experiences of researchers and development professionals in eleven countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Collective monitoring shifts the emphasis of development and conservation professionals... more...
Forest Conservation Genetics
CSIRO Publishing 2000; US$ 149.00Draws together much previously uncollected information relevant to managing and conserving forests. more...
The Global Economics of Forestry
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 99.95This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from diagrams describing three discrete stages of forest development, and then discusses the management and policy implications associated with each,... more...
Forest Landscape Restoration
Springer 2012; US$ 169.99Bringing together experts in landscape studies, natural resource management and forest restoration, conflict management, environmental economics and urban studies, this book defines the nature and potential of FLR to address a global environmental problem. more...
A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration
Springer 2012; US$ 169.99Applying principles of landscape ecology, restoration ecology, planning theory and conflict management, this book presents case studies which document Forest Landscape Restoration and discusses how the approach can help with priority setting for the future. more...
Forest Monitoring
Elsevier Science 2013; US$ 185.00The demand for comparable, long-term, high quality data on forest ecosystems' status and changes is increasing at the international and global level. Yet, sources for such data are limited and in many case it is not possible to compare data from different monitoring initiatives across space and time because of methodological differences. Apart from... more...
Windbreak Technology
Elsevier Science 1988; US$ 350.75This book contains a selection of papers presented at the first International Symposium on Windbreak Technology, summarising the available worldwide literature on windbreaks and the response, both positive and negative, to wind protection. State-of-the-art information is presented on general design criteria, and principles of planting and establishment... more...
The Wild Trees
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained?the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature.... more...
Applications of Physiological Ecology to Forest Management
Elsevier Science 1997; US$ 128.95Forest management is a complex process that now incorporates information obtained from many sources. It is increasingly obvious that the physiological status of the trees in a forest has a dramatic impact on the likely success of any particular management strategy. Indeed, models described in this book that deal with forest productivity and sustainability... more...









