Canada, Forestry, and the FAO

Canada, Forestry, and the FAO
Author: William Ralph Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1989
Genre: Forest policy
ISBN:

Report on the forestry activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, highlighting Canadian involvement. The report contains a detailed account of the purpose, organization, resources, activities, and related aspects of FAO and its many forestry-related subsidiary bodies.

Changing Tropical Forests

Changing Tropical Forests
Author: Harold K. Steen
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1992
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780822312369

Changing Tropical Forests begins with an overview of the history of deforestation in tropical America and the tasks facing Latin American environmental historians. Based on proceedings of a 1991 conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forest History Group in Costa Rica, the contributors offer detailed accounts of the enivornmental history of specific forest conditions, grasslands, and changing ecosystems of Costa Rica, Mexico, Surinam, and Brazil. the role of human intervention in this process of change is also discussed. Contributors. William Balée, James R. Barborak, Peter Boomgaard, Larissa V. Brown, Gerardo Budowski, John Dargavel, Warren Dean, Silvia del Amo R., Elizabeth Graham, J. Régis Guillaumon, Rhena Hoffmann, Sally P. Horn, Sebastião Kengen, Herman W. Konrad, Mary Pamela Lehmann, Robert D. Leier, Murdo J. MacLeod, M. Patricia Marchak, Elinor G. K. Melville, David M. Pendergast, Susan M. Pierce, Leslie E. Sponsel, Richard P. Tucker, Terry West