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  • The Wicked Problem of Forest Policy

    A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in Forest Landscapes

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    Forests play an important role in resolving global challenges such as sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water security. Stopping deforestation is crucial for the future of our planet. Global efforts to curb deforestation, have been partially successful, but have largely fallen short. At the same time, national level efforts to support human development, ... Leer más

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  • Sustainable Forest Management

    From Concept to Practice

    Edición de John L. Innes, Anna V. Tikina ...
    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Sustainable Forest Management provides the necessary material to educate students about forestry and the contemporary role of forests in ecosystems and society. This comprehensive textbook on the concept and practice of sustainable forest management sets the standard for practice worldwide.Early chapters concentrate on conceptual aspects, relating sustainable forestry management to international ... Leer más

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  • The Impacts of Climate Variability on Forests

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    Series Libro 74 - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
    This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997. For the first time, an assessment is made of the interactions between physical and biological elements of the Earth System on the basis of shifts in extreme climatic conditions, rather than simply changes in mean ... Leer más

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  • The Forest Unseen

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  • Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment: Advances and Applications

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    This volume arises from an International Symposium on Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment held in Canberra, Australia, in September 1987. The meeting was hosted by the CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics (now the Centre for Environmental Mechanics) to mark the opening of the second stage of its headquarters, the F.C. Pye Field Environment Laboratory, twenty-one years after the ... Leer más

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  • The Climate of China

    Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949there has been a rapid advance in climatology in China. The number of climatological stations has increased from less than 100 to more than of Chinese climatologists covers various 2,000, and the research work fields. The climate of China is no longer just a description of the average weather for an area or locality, but covers many ... Leer más

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