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Ecology and Silviculture of Eucalypt Forests
CSIRO Publishing 2004; US$ 110.00Examines the ecology and silviculture of eucalypts in forests and plantations. more...
Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 42.00What 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...
Grassfires
CSIRO Publishing 2008; US$ 35.95The latest information from CSIRO on the behaviour and spread of fires in grasslands. more...
Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook
CSIRO Publishing 2009; US$ 52.95Specifies methods, standards and terminology used in soil and land survey investigations. more...
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00This timely volume explores the ways in which indigenous peoples across the world are challenged by climate change impacts, and discusses the legal resources available to confront those challenges. Indigenous peoples occupy a unique niche within the climate justice movement, as many indigenous communities live subsistence lifestyles that are severely... more...
Flammable Australia
CSIRO Publishing 2012; US$ 87.95Leading researchers give an overview of the field of fire ecology in Australia. 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...









