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  • Forests, Trees and Human Health

    Edited by Kjell Nilsson, Marcus Sangster, Christos Gallis, Terry Hartig, Sjerp de Vries, Klaus Seeland, Jasper Schipperijn ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The link between modern lifestyles and increasing levels of chronic heart disease, obesity, stress and poor mental health is a concern across the world. The cost of dealing with these conditions places a large burden on national public health budgets so that policymakers are increasingly looking at prevention as a cost-effective alternative to medical treatment. Attention is turning towards ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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  • The Global Economics of Forestry

    by William F. Hyde ...
    This 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, supporting its observations with examples and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Greenwood Crafts

    A Comprehensive Guide

    by Edward Mills, Rebecca Oaks ...
    Britain has a long and rich tradition of woodcrafts and what, since about the 1970s, have been called the 'greenwood crafts'. Greenwood crafts focus on using wood that contains sap and that is easy to work with simple hand tools to produce beautiful and useful products.Discusses all you need to know to get started, including tools, workshops, sourcing wood, making some of your own devices and the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Community Forestry in Canada

    Lessons from Policy and Practice

    Edited by Sara Teitelbaum ...
    In recent decades, community forestry has taken root across Canada. Locally run initiatives are lauded as welcome alternatives to large corporate and industrial logging practices, yet little research has been done to document their tangible outcomes or draw connections between their ideals of local control, community benefit, ecological stewardship, and economic diversification and the realities ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Silviculture of South Asian Priority Bamboos

    by Ratan Lal Banik ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This monograph aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on bamboo varieties in South Asia. The main focus of this book is to address the ecological and economic significance of bamboos.Bamboo is a versatile group of plants, capable of providing ecological, economic and livelihood security to the people. In the tropics, especially the rural areas in different countries of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Contesting Conservation

    Shahtoosh Trade and Forest Management in Jammu and Kashmir, India

    by Saloni Gupta ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores today’s changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions. By carefully examining two such processes – the ban on shahtoosh trade and the ‘National Afforestation Programme’ in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, the book reveals ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Wilderness in National Parks

    Playground or Preserve

    by John C. Miles ...
    Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and the national wilderness preservation system, John C. Miles finds the National Park Service still struggling to deal with an idea ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Plant-Fungal Pathogen Interaction

    A Classical and Molecular View

    by Hermann H. Prell, Peter Day ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Research on the interactions of plants and phytopathogenic fungi has become one of the most interesting and rapidly moving fields in the plant sciences, the findings of which have contributed tremendously to the development of new strategies of plant protection. This book offers insight into the state of present knowledge. Special emphasis is placed on recognition phenomena between plants and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Forest Growth Responses to the Pollution Climate of the 21st Century

    Edited by Lucy J. Sheppard, J. Neil Cape ...
    This Special Issue of Water, Air and Soil Pollution offers contributions from the th 18 IUFRO workshop on Air Pollution Stress, Forest Responses to the Pollution st Climate of the 21 Century held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from September 21 to 23,1998. The meeting was held under the auspices of IUFRO, Research Group 7.04.00 chaired by Dr Kevin Percy of Canada. A new session structure was adopted to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Mycorrhizal Networks

    Edited by Thomas R. Horton ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The last 25 years have seen significant advances in our understanding of the mycorrhizal fungi that colonize most of the world’s plants, and the mycorrhizal networks that form and extend into the soil beyond plant roots. In addition to a thorough review of recent research on mycorrhizal networks, this book provides readers with alternative perspectives. The book is organized into three sections: ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Timber

    by Peter Dauvergne, Jane Lister ...
    Series series Resources
    Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we print, the disposable diapers for our babies, and the boxes that contain our cereal, detergent, and new appliances. The way we produce and consume timber, however, is changing. With international timber companies and big box discount retailers increasingly ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Growing from Seed

    An Introduction to Social Forestry

    by Celeste Lacuna-Richman ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Social 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 organized themselves and established both formal ... Read more

    $89.09 USD