The Global Forest

Author : Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781101404539

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The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger Pdf

A pioneering scientist writes of the fascinating ecological and pharmaceutical properties of trees, and how mother trees nourish younger trees and help them defend themselves – the inspiration for the documentary Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees Renowned scientist Diana Beresford-Kroeger presents an unforgettable and highly original work of natural history with The Global Forest. She explores the fascinating and largely untapped ecological and pharmaceutical properties of trees: leaves that can comb the air of particulate pollution, fatty acids in the nuts of hickory and walnut trees that promote brain development, the compound in the water ash that helps prevent cancer, aerosols in pine trees that calm nerves. In precise, imaginative, and poetic prose, she describes the complexity and beauty of forests, as well as the environmental dangers they face. The author's indisputable passion for her subject matter will inspire readers to look at trees, and at their own connection to the natural world, with newfound awe.

Author : Heikki Juslin,Eric Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forest products
ISBN : MINN:31951D02171001J

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Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries by Heikki Juslin,Eric Hansen Pdf

Author : Eric Hansen,Rajat Panwar,Richard Vlosky
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439879276

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The Global Forest Sector by Eric Hansen,Rajat Panwar,Richard Vlosky Pdf

Changes in production, demand, supply, and trade patterns; the impact of green building and bioenergy on industry practices and policy infrastructure; and new economies with production advantages and large consumption bases all present challenges and opportunities in the forest sector. With contributions from leading experts in academia and professional organizations, The Global Forest Sector: Changes, Practices, and Prospects fills a gap in the literature that is preventing students, scholars, and policy makers from developing a timely, structured, big-picture view of forest sector business. In addition, the book reviews current thinking on a wide variety of business management issues in the forest sector. The book covers managing change in the global forest sector and the impact of globalization on forest users. It discusses markets and market forces, new products and product categories, and the influence of China and Russia. The book then examines the environmental paradigm, including environmental activism, sustainability, and the impact of green building and bioenergy. The book concludes with coverage of the role of information technology, corporate social responsibility, innovation, and next steps. Overall, this book helps readers both develop a bird’s eye view of the changes surrounding the forest sector as well as have a magnified view of numerous managerial issues associated with these changes. The content paints a picture of the current and changing forest sector including the state of forests, the nature of markets, the newly emerged patterns of stakeholder impact, and evolution of key business practices. It provides the foundation needed to develop the conservation-based economy required for future success in the global forest sector.

Author : Chris J Kettle,Lian Pin Koh
Publisher : CABI
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780642031

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Global Forest Fragmentation by Chris J Kettle,Lian Pin Koh Pdf

Forest fragmentation will inevitably continue over the coming years, especially in developing economies. This book provides a cutting edge review of the multi-disciplinary sciences related to studies of global forest fragmentation. It specifically addresses cross-cutting themes from both an ecological and a social sciences perspective. The ultimate goal of Global Forest Fragmentation is to provide a detailed scientific base to support future forest landscape management and planning to meet global environmental and societal needs.

Author : Johan Eliasch
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844077724

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Climate Change by Johan Eliasch Pdf

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : R. Maguire
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857936073

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Global Forest Governance by R. Maguire Pdf

This work provides an important, broad and legal critique and assessment of transnational trends, structures and innovations currently in use for managing forests.

Author : Frederic Achard,Matthew C. Hansen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466552029

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Global Forest Monitoring from Earth Observation by Frederic Achard,Matthew C. Hansen Pdf

Covering recent developments in satellite observation data undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels, this book highlights operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems. It also tackles the technical issues surrounding the ability to produce accurate and consistent estimates of forest area changes, which are needed to report greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use changes. Written by leading global experts in the field, this book offers a launch point for future advances in satellite-based monitoring of global forest resources. It gives readers a deeper understanding of monitoring methods and shows how state-of-art technologies may soon provide key data for creating more balanced policies.

Author : Alexander Smith Mather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Forest conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D00508002C

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Global Forest Resources by Alexander Smith Mather Pdf

Author : Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780735275089

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To Speak for the Trees by Diana Beresford-Kroeger Pdf

Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet. When Diana Beresford-Kroeger--whose father was a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and whose mother was an O'Donoghue, one of the stronghold families who carried on the ancient Celtic traditions--was orphaned as a child, she could have been sent to the Magdalene Laundries. Instead, the O'Donoghue elders, most of them scholars and freehold farmers in the Lisheens valley in County Cork, took her under their wing. Diana became the last ward under the Brehon Law. Over the course of three summers, she was taught the ways of the Celtic triad of mind, body and soul. This included the philosophy of healing, the laws of the trees, Brehon wisdom and the Ogham alphabet, all of it rooted in a vision of nature that saw trees and forests as fundamental to human survival and spirituality. Already a precociously gifted scholar, Diana found that her grounding in the ancient ways led her to fresh scientific concepts. Out of that huge and holistic vision have come the observations that put her at the forefront of her field: the discovery of mother trees at the heart of a forest; the fact that trees are a living library, have a chemical language and communicate in a quantum world; the major idea that trees heal living creatures through the aerosols they release and that they carry a great wealth of natural antibiotics and other healing substances; and, perhaps most significantly, that planting trees can actively regulate the atmosphere and the oceans, and even stabilize our climate. This book is not only the story of a remarkable scientist and her ideas, it harvests all of her powerful knowledge about why trees matter, and why trees are a viable, achievable solution to climate change. Diana eloquently shows us that if we can understand the intricate ways in which the health and welfare of every living creature is connected to the global forest, and strengthen those connections, we will still have time to mend the self-destructive ways that are leading to drastic fires, droughts and floods.

Author : Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 132276610X

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Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger Pdf

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429983549

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The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin! The Word for World is Forest When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 1101404175

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The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger Pdf

Author : Frances Seymour,Jonah Busch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933286860

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Why Forests? Why Now? by Frances Seymour,Jonah Busch Pdf

Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.

Author : Joseph Buongiorno
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780121413620

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The Global Forest Products Model by Joseph Buongiorno Pdf

The Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) book provides a complete introduction to this widely applied computer model. The GFPM is a dynamic economic equilibrium model that is used to predict production, consumption, trade, and prices of 14 major forest products in 180 interacting countries. The book thoroughly documents the methods, data, and computer software of the model, and demonstrates the model's usefulness in addressing international economic and environmental issues. The Global Forest Products Model is written by an international multi-disciplinary team and is ideal for graduate students and professionals in forestry, natural resource economics, and related fields. It explains trends in world forest industries in the simplest terms by explaining the economic theory underlying the model. It describes six applications of the GFPM, three of which were commissioned by the Food Agriculture of the United Nations, the USDA Forest Service, and New Zealand Research. The authors show how to apply the model to real issues such as the effects of the Asian economic crisis on the forest sector, the effects of eliminating tariffs on international trade and production, and the international effects of national environmental policies. They provide complete explanations on how to use the GFPM software, prepare the data, make the forecasts, and summarize the results with tables and graphs. Comprehensive, and rigorous description of the world forestry sector Written by an international multi-disciplinary team Thorough description of data and methods In-depth applications to modern economic and policy issues Detailed documentation of the computer software Suitable for students, researchers, and decision makers

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251092835

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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The contributions of forests to the well-being of humankind are far-reaching. Forests provide vital wood supplies, help to combat rural poverty, and ensure food security and decent livelihoods; they offer promising mid-term green growth opportunities; and they deliver vital long-term environmental services, such as clean air and water, biodiversity and mitigation of climate change. Building on data that are more comprehensive and reliable than ever before and covering 234 countries and territories, the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015) shows encouraging signs of improved forest management and a global slowdown in deforestation. However, these trends need to be strengthened, especially in countries that are lagging behind.