Forest Stand Dynamics

Forest Stand Dynamics
Author: Chadwick D. Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1996-02-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Comprehensive book describes the various growth patterns of forests. The purpose is to help silviculturalists and forest managers understand and anticipate how forests grow and respond to intentional manipulations and natural disasters.

Reading the Forested Landscape

Reading the Forested Landscape
Author: Tom Wessels
Publisher: Nature
Total Pages: 199
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780881504200

Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges

Global Resources and the Environment

Global Resources and the Environment
Author: Chadwick Dearing Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107172934

An illustrated overview of the sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues surrounding their distribution and demand.

Forests Adrift

Forests Adrift
Author: Charles D. Canham
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0300238290

A captivating analysis of the past, present, and future of northeastern forests and the forces that have shaped them The northeastern United States is one of the most densely forested regions in the country, yet its history of growth, destruction, and renewal are for the most part poorly understood--even by specialists. In this engaging look at both the impermanence and the resilience of the northeastern forest ecosystems, Charles D. Canham provides a synthesis of modern ecological research and explores critical threats that include logging, fire suppression, disease, air pollution, invasive species, and climate change. Providing a historical perspective on how northeastern forests have changed since the arrival of European settlers, Canham also utilizes new theoretical models to predict how these ecosystems will change and adapt to an uncertain future. This is an informed and accessible investigation of an endangered natural landscape that examines the ramifications of the scientific controversies and ethical dilemmas shaping the future of northeastern forests.

Constructing Private Governance

Constructing Private Governance
Author: Graeme Auld
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0300190530

Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programs that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desirable benefits as improved environmental conditions or more equitable market transactions. But what do we know about the origins and development of the organizations behind these labels? This book examines forest, coffee, and fishery certification programs to reveal how the early decisions of programs on governance and standards affect the path along which individual programs evolve and the variety and number of programs across sectors.

Cold War Ecology

Cold War Ecology
Author: Arvid Nelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300130309

East Germany, its economy, and its society were in decline long before the country’s political collapse in the late 1980s. The clues were there in the natural landscape, Arvid Nelson argues in this groundbreaking book, but policy analysts were blind to them. Had they noted the record of the leadership’s values and goals manifest in the landscape, they wouldn’t have hailed East Germany as a Marxist-Leninist success story. Nelson sets East German history within the context of the landscape history of two centuries to underscore how forest and ecosystem change offered a reliable barometer to the health and stability of the political system that governed them. Cold War Ecology records how East German leaders’ indifference to human rights and their disregard for the landscape affected the rural economy, forests, and population. This lesson from history suggests new ways of thinking about the health of ecosystems and landscapes, Nelson shows, and he proposes assessing the stability of modern political systems based on the environment’s system qualities rather than on political leaders’ goals and beliefs.

Old Growth

Old Growth
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-08
Genre: Trees
ISBN: 9780913098028

Articles about trees that have appeared in Orion Magazine.

A Better Planet

A Better Planet
Author: Daniel C. Esty
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 030024889X

A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges such as the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages, and air pollution. But in the United States, partisan divides, regional disputes, and deep disagreements over core principles have made it nearly impossible to chart a course toward a sustainable future. This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book’s forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. The book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.

Managing the Wild

Managing the Wild
Author: Charles M. Peters
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0300235526

Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters’s thirty†‘five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, “Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and they are much better at it than we are.” With the aim of showing policy makers, conservation advocates, and others the potential benefits of giving communities a more prominent conservation role, Peters offers readers fascinating backstories of positive forest interactions. He provides examples such as the Kenyah Dayak people of Indonesia, who manage subsistence orchards and are perhaps the world’s most gifted foresters, and communities in Mexico that sustainably harvest agave for mescal and demonstrate a near†‘heroic commitment to good practices. No forest is pristine, and Peters’s work shows that communities have been doing skillful, subtle forest management throughout the tropics for several hundred years.

All the Trees of the Forest

All the Trees of the Forest
Author: Alon Tal
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0300189508

DIVIn this insightful and provocative book, Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands, and ecosystems. Tal’s description of Israel’s trials and errors, and his exploration of both the environmental history and the current policy dilemmas surrounding that country's forests, will provide valuable lessons in the years to come for other parts of the world seeking to reestablish timberlands./div