Forestry And The Forest Industries Past And Future

Author : E.G. Richards
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400936690

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Forestry and the Forest Industries: Past and Future by E.G. Richards Pdf

In analysing the development and achievements of Polish forestry and forest industries over the last four decades, it is necessary to take into consideration the situation prevailing after the end of the Second World War, when these sectors of the national economy were starting their activities. First of all, it is necessary to consider the effects of the war such as: (a) the harvesting from the forests of the present Polish territory of 3 about 200 million m of merchantable wood, which is equal to the normal harvest over a l2-year period; (b) the destruction of over half the woodworking industrial potential. In consequence, the forested area inside the new Polish boundaries amounted 40 years ago only to 20.8 per cent of the whole area of the country. There has been a continuing process of increasing the forested area of the country (although at a diminishing rate). In 1986 the forest area amounted to 27.7 per cent of the land surface, that is to 8.7 million ha, an increase of over 2 million ha in 40 years. Intensive afforestation, performed regardless of the ownership category of the land by the State forest service, was aimed primarily at making good the losses in the forested area and the rational use of land not fit for agricultural purposes.

Author : E. G. Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:906319996

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Forestry and the Forest Industries by E. G. Richards Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UIUC:30112075559598

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Southern Forest Science by Anonim Pdf

"Southern forests provide innumerable benefits. Forest scientists, managers, owners, and users have in common the desire to improve the condition of these forests and the ecosystems they support. A first step is to understand the contributions science has made and continues to make to the care and management of forests. This book represents a celebration of past accomplishments, summarizes the current state of knowledge, and creates a vision for the future of southern forestry research and management. Chapters are organized into seven sections: "Looking Back," "Productivity," "Forest Health," "Water and Soils," "Socioeconomic," "Biodiversity," and "Climate Change." Each section is preceded by a brief introductory chapter. Authors were encouraged to focus on the most important aspects of their topics; citations are included to guide readers to further information."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Forest products
ISBN : MINN:31951P00946751P

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Progress Through Wood Research by Anonim Pdf

This report contains speeches made at the general assembly and banquet of the Forest Products Laboratory's 75th Anniversary celebration on June 4, 1985. It highlights the significance of the Laboratory and presents the speakers' view of the future for forestry and wood products research.

Author : Thomas J. McEvoy
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597266178

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Positive Impact Forestry by Thomas J. McEvoy Pdf

Positive Impact Forestry is a primer for private woodland owners and their managers on managing their land and forests to protect both ecological and economic vitality. Moving beyond the concept of "low impact forestry," Thom McEvoy brings together the latest scientific understanding and insights to describe an approach to managing forests that meets the needs of landowners while at the same time maintaining the integrity of forest ecosystems. "Positive impact forestry" emphasizes forestry's potential to achieve sustainable benefits both now and into the future, with long-term investment superseding short-term gain, and the needs of families -- especially future generations -- exceeding those of individuals. Thom McEvoy offers a thorough discussion of silvicultural basics, synthesizing and explaining the current state of forestry science on topics such as forest soils, tree roots, form and function in trees, and the effects of different harvesting methods on trees, soil organisms, and sites. He also offers invaluable advice on financial, legal, and management issues, ranging from finding the right forestry professionals to managing for products other than timber to passing forest lands and management legacies on to future generations. Positive Impact Forestry helps readers understand the impacts of deliberate human activities on forests and offers viable strategies that provide benefits without damaging ecosystems. It speaks directly to private forest owners and their advisers and represents an innovative guide for anyone concerned with protecting forest ecosystems, timber production, land management, and the long-term health of forests. Named the "Best Forestry Book for 2004" by the National Woodlands Owners Association

Author : Paul Wolvekamp
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856497577

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Forests for the Future by Paul Wolvekamp Pdf

Aimed at policy-makers and practitioners, this work looks at how local and indigenous communities can maintain the balance between their societies and their forest environments when faced with increasing external pressures, rising populations and growing demands for basic needs and cash. While efforts by governments or coporations to restore and manage forest environments are often non-existent or ineffective, there frequently exists, within communities who depend on forests, a wealth of knowledge about rational land use and environmental protection.

Author : Peter Blandon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000240627

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Soviet Forest Industries by Peter Blandon Pdf

Forest industries represent an important segment of the Soviet economy, accounting for five percent of the total industrial output and providing essential materials for other key industries. This book, the first in-depth study of Soviet forestry in the English language, looks at the organizational, planning, economic, and technological aspects of the industry. Mr. Blandon first discusses labor force trends and geographical features of the country's forest resources, then assesses the forest industry's modernization program. He analyzes the past performance of capital investment in the industry and makes projections about the effects of future investments in order to estimate the Soviet Union's future timber output. Throughout the book considerable attention is devoted to the Soviet planning system and its influence on decision making.

Author : Wil de Jong,Do Dinh Sam,Trieu Van Hung
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Reforestation
ISBN : 9789792446524

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Forest Rehabilitation in Vietnam: Histories, Realities, and Future by Wil de Jong,Do Dinh Sam,Trieu Van Hung Pdf

This report assesses the experiences of forest rehabilitation in Vietnam and draws strategic lessons from these experiences to guide new forest rehabilitation projects. The report highlights lessons from Vietnam's experiences that will be helpful beyond the country border. This report has the following structure: the remainder of chpater one provides the conceptual clarification and theoritical underpinnings for the study and introduces the methodology. Chapter two provides background information and context for the outcomes of forest rehabilitation in Vietnam, including basic information on Vietnam, its forest cover, forestry sector and policies that are relevant to forestry and forest rehabilitation. Chapter three gives an overview of forest rehabilitation in Vietnam from its inception in the 1950s until today, as the country carries out its latest nationwide forest rehabilitation effort, the 5 million hectares reforestation project. Chapter four analyses in detail forest rehabilitation project that were analysed in the field study carried out as part of this study. Chapter five draws lessons from the report.

Author : Erland Mårald,Camilla Sandstrom,Annika Nordin,and Others
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317445913

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Forest Governance and Management Across Time by Erland Mårald,Camilla Sandstrom,Annika Nordin,and Others Pdf

The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years’ rotations in forestry. Historically established path dependencies and conflicts determine our present situation and delimit what is possible to achieve. Similarly, future trends and desires have a large influence on decision making. Nevertheless, decisions about forest governance and management are always made in the present – in the present-time appraisal of the developed situation, future alternatives and in negotiation between different perspectives, interests, and actors. This book explores historic and future outlooks as well as current tradeoffs and methods in forest governance and management. It emphasizes the generality and complexity with empirical data from Sweden and internationally. It first investigates, from a historical perspective, how previous forest policies and discourses have influenced current forest governance and management. Second, it considers methods to explore alternative forest futures and how the results from such investigations may influence the present. Third, it examines current methods of balancing tradeoffs in decision-making among ecosystem services. Based on the findings the authors develop an integrated approach – Reflexive Forestry – to support exchange of knowledge and understandings to enable capacity building and the establishment of common ground. Such societal agreements, or what the authors elaborate as forest social contracts, are sets of relational commitment between involved actors that may generate mutual action and a common directionality to meet contemporary challenges.

Author : Mark Baker,Jonathan Kusel
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597268486

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Community Forestry in the United States by Mark Baker,Jonathan Kusel Pdf

Across the United States, people are developing new relationships with the forest ecosystems on which they depend, with a common goal of improving the health of the land and the well-being of their communities. Practitioners and supporters of what has come to be called community forestry are challenging current approaches to forest management as they seek to end the historical disfranchisement of communities and workers from forest management and the all-too-pervasive trends of long-term disinvestment in ecosystems and human communities that have undermined the health of both. Community Forestry in the United States is an analytically rigorous and historically informed assessment of this new movement. It examines the current state of community forestry through a grounded assessment of where it stands now and where it might go in the future. The book not only clarifies the state of the movement, but also suggests a trajectory and process for its continued development.

Author : Susanna B. Hecht,Kathleen D. Morrison,Christine Padoch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226024134

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The Social Lives of Forests by Susanna B. Hecht,Kathleen D. Morrison,Christine Padoch Pdf

Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face—including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation—are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests’ past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coalescence of these forces—from local ecologies to competing knowledge systems—has masked a significant contemporary trend of woodland resurgence, even in the forests of the tropics. Focusing on the history and current use of woodlands from India to the Amazon, The Social Lives of Forests attempts to build a coherent view of forests sited at the nexus of nature, culture, and development. With chapters covering the effects of human activities on succession patterns in now-protected Costa Rican forests; the intersection of gender and knowledge in African shea nut tree markets; and even the unexpectedly rich urban woodlands of Chicago, this book explores forests as places of significant human action, with complex institutions, ecologies, and economies that have transformed these landscapes in the past and continue to shape them today. From rain forests to timber farms, the face of forests—how we define, understand, and maintain them—is changing.

Author : Ken Drushka
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780773571693

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Canada's Forests by Ken Drushka Pdf

Ken Drushka analyses the changes in human attitudes towards the forests, detailing the rise of the late nineteenth-century conservation movement and its subsequent decline after World War I, the interplay between industry and government in the development of policy, the adoption of sustained yield policies after World War II, and the recent adoption of sustainable forest management in response to environmental concerns. Drushka argues that, despite the centuries of use, the Canadian forest retains a good deal of its vitality and integrity. Written in accessible language and aimed at a general readership, Canada's Forests will be a must-read for anyone interested in the debate about the current and future uses of this precious natural resource.

Author : Canada. Forestry Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:319510003934023

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The Forests of Canada by Canada. Forestry Branch Pdf

Author : Emil Salim,Ola Ullsten,World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521669561

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Our Forests, Our Future by Emil Salim,Ola Ullsten,World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development Pdf

A unique report of the current status and future survival of the world's forests compiled by an international independent commission.

Author : Sergey V. Zykov,Dennis V. Dayneko
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811698613

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Forest Industry of Russia by Sergey V. Zykov,Dennis V. Dayneko Pdf

This book focuses on crisis management in forest industry of Russia. It is about the present, and the future, with a short retrospective about the past of the forest industry in Russia. It includes forecasting too and description of some of the best practices of developed countries to be implemented in Russia to overcome the crisis. The main theme of the book is smart innovations and innovative activities introduced and also those which are required in the forest industry of Russia. The book considers the effectiveness of innovations and institutional changes in the forest industry, which are an important direction of innovation activities required all together with technological and economic breakthrough with ecological aspects in priority. The necessity to implement the modern innovation system in the forest industry based on institutional changes is substantiated and thoroughly explained with successful examples of ongoing and future up-to-date smart innovations. The development of the forest innovation system is suggested for sustainable forest industry management; the key components of which are technological, product, institutional, and ecological innovations, as well as, innovative entrepreneurship. Realization of the innovation system for technological and intellectual improvement requires good scientific and personnel provision, anticipation of markets and tendencies of development for some decades ahead. The implied advanced technologies in the forest industry also include IT-, nano-, and biotechnologies. The success stories of the leading Russian and international companies in the forest industry of Russia are studied attentively in the book. The book presents a profound methodical and theoretical substantiation for the further implementation of the smart innovations and of the successful experience of the industry leading companies.