Tropical Forests

Tropical Forests
Author: Eusebio Cano Carmona
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 1837685746

The Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge
Author: Robert A. Fimbel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0231114559

Bringing together leading scientists and professionals in tropical forest ecology and management, this book examines in detail the interplay between timber harvesting and wildlife, from invertebrates to large mammal species. Its contributors suggest modifications to existing practices that can ensure a better future for the tropics' valuable--and invaluable--resources.

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing
Author: Iain H. Woodhouse
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351988557

Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing offers an extensive overview of this versatile and extremely precise technology for technically oriented undergraduates and graduate students. This textbook emphasizes an important shift in conceptualization and directs it toward students with prior knowledge of optical remote sensing: the author dispels any linkage between microwave and optical remote sensing. Instead, he constructs the concept of microwave remote sensing by comparing it to the process of audio perception, explaining the workings of the ear as a metaphor for microwave instrumentation. This volume takes an “application-driven” approach. Instead of describing the technology and then its uses, this textbook justifies the need for measurement then explains how microwave technology addresses this need. Following a brief summary of the field and a history of the use of microwaves, the book explores the physical properties of microwaves and the polarimetric properties of electromagnetic waves. It examines the interaction of microwaves with matter, analyzes passive atmospheric and passive surface measurements, and describes the operation of altimeters and scatterometers. The textbook concludes by explaining how high resolution images are created using radars, and how techniques of interferometry can be applied to both passive and active sensors.

Life After Logging

Life After Logging
Author: E. Meijaard
Publisher: CIFOR
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9793361565

This book presents a technical review of ecological and life history information on a range of Bornean wildlife species, aimed at identifying what makes these species sensitive to timber harvesting practices and associated impacts. It addresses three audiences: 1) those involved in assessing and regulating timber harvesting activities in Southeast Asia, 2) those involved in trying to achieve conservation goals in the region, and 3) those undertaking research to improve multipurpose forest management. This book shows that forest management can be improved in many simple ways to allow timber extraction and wildlife conservation to be more compatible than under current practices. The recommendations can also be valuable to the many governmental and non-governmental organisations promoting sustainable forest management and eco-labelling. Finally, it identifies a number of shortcomings and gaps in knowledge, which the hope can interest the scientific community and promote further research. This review is, an important scientific step toward understanding and improving sustainable forestry practices for long-term biodiversity conservation. Even in the short term, however, significant improvements can be made to improve both conservation and the efficiency of forest management, and there is no need to delay action due to a perceived lack of information. In the longer term it is expected that the recommendations from this review will be implemented, and that further research will continue to help foster an acceptable balance among the choices needed to maintain healthy wildlife populations and biodiversity in a productive forest estate.

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being
Author: Neville Ash
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1597267112

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is the most extensive study ever of the linkages between the world's ecosystems and human well-being. It is one of the most important conservation initiatives ever undertaken, and the ecosystem services paradigm on which it is based provides the standard for practice. This manual supplies the specific tools that practitioners of the paradigm need in order to extend their work into the future. The manual is a stand-alone "how to" guide to conducting assessments of the impacts on humans of ecosystem changes. It builds on the experiences and lessons learned from the MA global and sub-global assessment initiatives, with chapters written by well-known participants in those initiatives. It also includes insights gained from service-focused assessment activities since the completion of the MA in 2005.

Forest Ecosystems

Forest Ecosystems
Author: Richard H. Waring
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1998
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780127354439

Cycles, water, carbon.

The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Philippines

The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Philippines
Author: Gerhard van den Top
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788791114144

This work offers a detailed case study on the dynamics of forest use, degradation, and loss in Northeast Luzon, Philippines. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the study charts the degradation and loss of forest in this area between 1950 and 1990, as it relates to the social and political context of logging, forest migration, and changes in upland agriculture. Based on ten years of research, the author introduces us to the actions, livelihood options, and motives of all the principal group of actors.

Multiple-use Forest Management in the Humid Tropics

Multiple-use Forest Management in the Humid Tropics
Author: César Sabogal
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This paper reports on three regional assessments carried out to identify and draw lessons from on-the-ground initiatives in multiple-use forest management in the Amazon Basin, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia. In all three regions, information was collected through interviews with country-based forestry experts, forest managers and technicians. A complementary, web-based questionnaire further examines the reasons for the successes and failures of multiple-use forests management initiatives.