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  • Assessment of Biodiversity for Improved Forest Planning

    Edited by Peter Bachmann, Michael Köhl, Risto Päivinen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The `Global Biodiversity Strategy' signed in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and the resolutions at the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe in Strasbourg, 1990, and Helsinki, 1993, commit the signatory states to monitor nationally the state of biodiversity and to sustain the characteristic natural variation in the country. Sustainability and long-term planning are the two terms ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    Techniques for Standard and Complex Tree-Felling Operations

    by ForestWorks ...
    The Tree Faller’s Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. This manual builds on the information provided by the Chainsaw Operator’s Manual.Tree felling is a high risk activity. Many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred as a result of being struck by falling trees, dislodged tree limbs or other dangers in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Listen to the Trees

    by Don MacCaskill ...
    In his introduction, Don MacCaskill wrote modestly, 'I think I became a naturalist'. He was, in fact, one of Scotland's foremost naturalists and a remarkable wildlife photographer as well. In a flashback to his early years in Kilmartin, a village in Argyllshire, we learn of his awakening interest in man's relationship with the wildlife all around him - why was it necessary to kill it? And when ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes

    Dehesas of Spain and Ranchlands of California

    Edited by Pablo Campos, Lynn Huntsinger, Jose Luis Oviedo, Paul F Starrs, Mario Diaz, Richard B Standiford, Gregorio Montero ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The oak tree was a boon companion as humans expanded their presence across much of the globe. While oak woodlands (Quercus spp.) come today in stunningly diverse forms, the stately dehesas of Spain and the dramatic oak-dominated ranchlands of California are working landscapes where cultivation and manipulation for a couple of millennia have shaped Mediterranean-type ecosystems into a profoundly ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Cotton, Water, Salts and Soums

    Economic and Ecological Restructuring in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

    Edited by Christopher Martius, John P.A. Lamers, P.L.G. Vlek, Inna Rudenko ...
    This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin. In an interdisciplinary approach, natural and human sciences are combined to elucidate the challenges of economic transition that affect the use of land, water and biological resources, ecological sustainability, economic efficiency and the livelihoods of the local ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Permafrost Response on Economic Development, Environmental Security and Natural Resources

    by Elfi Van Overloop, Vladimir D. Gorokhov ...
    Series Book 76 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    Unlike connotations such as greenhouse effect. global change, sea level, desertification, etc. , permafrost is definitely lacking in the everyday speech of many non-specialists. The reason is that areas of permafrost are too remote, barren and isolated. Focus on permafrost today is brought when huge environmental disasters, mainly related to pollution by oil spills, occur. Even then it is offered ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • Continuous Cover Forestry

    Edited by Timo Pukkala, Klaus Gadow ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Although the majority of the world’s forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, selectively managed as Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), are ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • When Money Grew on Trees

    A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron

    by Greg Gordon ...
    Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective

    Structure, Function, and Services

    Edited by Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Erik Kristensen, Shing Yip Lee, Robert R. Twilley ...
    This book presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of mangrove ecological processes, structure, and function at the local, biogeographic, and global scales and how these properties interact to provide key ecosystem services to society. The analysis is based on an international collaborative effort that focuses on regions and countries holding the largest mangrove resources and encompasses ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Forest Context and Policies in Portugal

    Present and Future Challenges

    Edited by Fernando Reboredo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the Portuguese forests and forestry sector, including its history, its total economic value, current threats and opportunities and future challenges, namely the need to incorporate more planning and technology in forest management practices. The methodological approach of analysing the forestry sector in terms of its total economic value, and the use of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Theory and Practice of Soil Loss Control in Eastern China

    by D.L. DeAngelis, J.Y. Zhuang, J.C. Zhang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    After the 1998 flood of the Yangtze River, one of the world’s most important rivers, environmental experts realized that, to control flooding, much more attention must be paid to vegetation cover on bare lands, thin forest land, and shrub-covered land in mountain areas. In 1999, an environmental monitoring project of the forests in 11 provinces of the Yangtze River basin was undertaken. This book ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Mixed-Species Forests

    Ecology and Management

    Edited by Hans Pretzsch, David I. Forrester, Jürgen Bauhus ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This textbook offers a detailed overview of the current state of knowledge concerning the ecology and management of compositionally and structurally diverse forests. It provides answers to central questions such as:What are the scientific concepts used to assess the growth, dynamics and functioning of mixed-species forests, how generalizable are they, and what kind of experiments are necessary to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD