People and Forests

People and Forests
Author: Clark C. Gibson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2000
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780262571371

People and Forests explores the complex interactions between local communities and their forests, focusing on the rules by which communities govern and manage their forest resources.

The Forest People

The Forest People
Author: Colin Turnbull
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473524172

The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology. For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in the forest of the African Congo, experiencing their daily life first-hand. He attended their hunting parties and initiation ceremonies, witnessed their music and their rituals, observed their quarrels and love affairs. He documented them as an anthropologist but was accepted among them as a friend. A ground-breaking work in its time, The Forest People made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people. With a new foreword by Horatio Clare.

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Pia Katila
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108486991

A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

By the Waters of Babylon

By the Waters of Babylon
Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2015-08-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781517031244

The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must be a priest or the son of a priest. Afterwards, both the man and the metal must be purified. These are the rules and the laws; they are well made. It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods-this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name. It is there that spirits live, and demons-it is there that there are the ashes of the Great Burning. These things are forbidden- they have been forbidden since the beginning of time.

Rich Forests, Poor People

Rich Forests, Poor People
Author: Nancy Lee Peluso
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520073777

Lots of Javanese peasants live alongside state-controlled forest lands. Because their legal access and customary rights to the forest have been limited, they have been pushed toward illegal use of forest resources. This book untangles the peasant and state politics which developed in Java.

Clara Dillingham Pierson's Complete Among the People Series

Clara Dillingham Pierson's Complete Among the People Series
Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1627930000

Collected here in one omnibus edition are all five of Clara Dillingham Pierson's Among the People series. Included are Among the Night People, Among the Meadow People, Among the Farmyard People, Among the Pond People, and Among the Forest People. These charming stories will delight your children while delivering a positive moral message to them.

Why Forests? Why Now?

Why Forests? Why Now?
Author: Frances Seymour
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1933286865

Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.

The Forest People

The Forest People
Author: Jimmy Dilks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre:
ISBN:

What would happen if we removed all but a few humans from society? With 99.99% of the population mysteriously vanishing in the blink of an eye, how would humanity act? Would the survivors help each other, or would the Earth transform into a ruthless arena? Sometimes, it can prove to be a little of both...