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Tree Faller's Manual
CSIRO Publishing 2011; US$ 24.95Covers risk assessment, theory and techniques for manual tree-felling. more...
Principles of International Environmental Law
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 82.00This second edition of Sand's leading textbook incorporates relevant new material, including genetically modified organisms and the Kyoto Protocol. It remains the most comprehensive account of the principles and rules relating to the protection of the environment, and will remain an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike. more...
The Australian Soil Classification
CSIRO Publishing 2002; US$ 49.95Provides a framework for organising knowledge about Australian soils. more...
People's History of Environmentalism in the United States
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 23.95This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events, the US environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and was driven by the increased leisure and wealth of... more...
Cultures of Environmentalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 30.00As environmental issues increasingly impinge on society, sociologists have turned their attention to nature and the environment. However, unlike the majority of sociological work on environmental issues, which has too often been dominated by abstract theoretical disputes, this book concentrates on empirical studies in environmental sociology. It shows... more...
Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge
Springer 2011; US$ 189.99Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status and trends in the development and application of traditional forest knowledge by local and indigenous communities worldwide. It considers the interplay between traditional beliefs and practices and formal forest science and interrogates... more...
Continuous Cover Forestry
Springer 2011; US$ 169.99Although the majority of the world's forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, selectively... more...
Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests
Springer 2011; US$ 169.99In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca. 0.5 million hectares of forests and other rural lands. The management of these burned forests has been given much less attention than fire prevention or fire suppression issues, but the post-fire management of burned... more...
Growing from Seed
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, Community Forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests. During this time, forests have provided people with countless goods and services, including wood, medicine, food, clean water and recreation. In making use of forest resources, people throughout history have frequently... more...









