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  • Plantations Privatization Poverty and Power

    Changing Ownership and Management of State Forests

    by Michael Garforth, James Mayers ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Private sector delivery of state services is increasingly common worldwide, and state forest plantation management is no exception. Increasingly governments are transferring rights and responsibilities to the private sector for state-owned plantations. Some claim that this is the road to achieving sustainable forest management, greater contributions to local livelihoods and poverty reduction, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Teaming with Fungi

    The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae

    by Jeff Lowenfels ...
    “Accomplishes what few other books have—helping growers use mycorrhizae to improve the immune systems of plants. This natural union between plants and fungi is the foundation of our food web.” —Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the WorldTeaming with Fungi is an important guide to mycorrhizae and the role they play in agriculture, horticulture, and hydroponics. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Iceland Imagined

    Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

    by Karen Oslund ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund’s Iceland Imagined.This ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Handbook of Forest Resource Economics

    Edited by Shashi Kant, Janaki Alavalapati ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil erosion and controlling water supplies, as well as providing non-timber forest products and supporting the ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Nature of Borders

    Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea

    by Lissa K. Wadewitz ...
    Series series Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
    Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical AssociationWinner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History AssociationWinner of the 2013 John Lyman Book Award in the Naval and Maritime Science and Technology category from the North American Society for Oceanic HistoryFor centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Soil Biological Communities and Ecosystem Resilience

    Edited by Mauro Gamboni, Paola Grenni, Martin Lukac ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume explores current knowledge and methods used to study soil organisms and to attribute their activity to wider ecosystem functions. Biodiversity not only responds to environmental change, but has also been shown to be one of the key drivers of ecosystem function and service delivery. Soil biodiversity in tree-dominated ecosystems is also governed by these principles, the structure of ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Bananas and Plantains

    Edited by S. Gowen ...
    Series series World Crop Series
    In a field of mature bananas, plants can be seen at all stages of vegetative growth and fruit maturity, providing a fascination for anyone who has an interest in growing crops. Banana farmers in the tropics can harvest fruit every day of the year. The absence of seasonality in production is an advantage, in that it provides a continuity of carbohydrate to meet dietary needs as well as a regular ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • Conservation of Wood Artifacts

    A Handbook

    by A. Unger, W. Unger, A.P. Schniewind ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monographs, including Holzkonservierung (Wood Conserva tion) published by the senior author in 1988, have appeared over the years, especially in English and in ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Faith in Nature

    Environmentalism as Religious Quest

    by Thomas Dunlap ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism--and its moral thrust--from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Global Environmental Forest Policies

    An International Comparison

    by Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore, Peter Kanowski ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multi-lateral governmental and non-governmental initiatives have emerged to redefine the rules of global trade, and demand verification of the legality and/or sustainability of forest products originating from within and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Состояние лесов мира 2014

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Во всем мире леса, расположенные на сельскохозяйственных землях насаждения и агролесоводческие системы играют ключевую роль в качестве источников средств к существованию для сельского населения, обеспечивая его рабочими местами, энергетическими ресурсами, питательным продовольствием и другими продуктами и экосистемными услугами. Они таят огромный потенциал с точки зрения обеспечения устойчивого ... Read more

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  • Life at Interfaces and Under Extreme Conditions

    Proceedings of the 33rd European Marine Biology Symposium, held at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 7–11 September 1998

    Edited by Ingrid Kröncke, Sabine Dittmann, Gerd Liebezeit ...
    Series Book 151 - Developments in Hydrobiology
    Interfaces between media, whether air-water or sediment-water interfaces or organisms themselves, pose considerable problems to marine organisms attempting to live at these boundaries.In the present volume, a number of authors address various aspects of these two topics. Locations under scrutiny range from intertidal areas to the deep sea, while both macro-and meiofaunal organisms are investigated ... Read more

    $143.09 USD