Forestry Books

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61. Invasive Plants and Forest Ecosystems

    Edited by Ravinder Kumar Kohli, Shibu Jose, Harminder Pal Singh, Daizy Rani Batish

    As the worldwide human population explodes and trade becomes increasingly globalized, the transboundary movement of plant species from their place of origin to foreign regions is escalating and expected to experience continued growth in the coming decades. Invasive Plants and Forest Ecosystems...

    Published September 8th 2008 by CRC Press
62. Forest Community Connections

    "Implications for Research, Management, and Governance"

    By Ellen Donoghue, Victoria Sturtevant

    The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. Dependency on timber extraction and timber-related industries is no longer a universal characteristic of the forest community. Remoteness is...

    Published August 11th 2008 by Routledge
63. The Forest Landscape Restoration Handbook

    Edited by Jenny Rietbergen-McCracken, Stewart Maginnis, Alastair Sarre

    Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

    'This book has been written by a team of experts from a wide variety of institutions... The result is by far the most comprehensive and easy to understand treatment of FLR yet written.' ACHIM STEINER (DIRECTOR GENERAL, IUCN) AND MANOEL SOBRAL FILHO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ITTO), FROM THE PREFACE...

    Published June 29th 2008 by Routledge
64. Partnerships for Empowerment

    Participatory Research for Community-based Natural Resource Management

    Edited by Carl Wilmsen, William F. Elmendorf, Larry Fisher, Jacquelyn Ross, Brinda Sarathy, Gail Wells

    Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and realities to support community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), and it is often touted as crucial to the sustainable management of forests and other natural resources....

    Published June 4th 2008 by Routledge
65. Lessons from Forest Decentralization

    "Money, Justice and the Quest for Good Governance in Asia-Pacific"

    Edited by Carol Colfer Pierce J, Ganga Dahal Ram, Doris Capistrano

    The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace, with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves. The fresh research from a host of Asia-Pacific countries described in this book presents rich and varied experience with...

    Published April 2nd 2008 by Routledge
66. Flora of Siberia, Vol. 14

    Additions and Corrections; Alphabetical Indexes

    Edited by L I Malyschev

    Series: Flora of Siberia

    This represents the concluding volume of the comprehensive compilation on the taxonomy and chorology of the vascular plants of Siberia (Volumes 1 to 13). The present volume covers the latest information on the nomenclature and distribution of the species that were reported after the publication of...

    Published January 2nd 2008 by Science Publishers
67. Sharing Power

    A Global Guide to Collaborative Management of Natural Resources

    By Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Michel Pimbert, M. Taghi Farvar, Ashish Kothari, Yves Renard with Hanna Jaireth, Marshall Murphree, Vicki Pattemore, Ricardo Ram�rez, Patrizio Warren

    The collaborative or ?co?-management of natural resources - whether between states and local communities or amongst and within communities themselves - is a process of collective understanding and actions to bring about negotiated agreements on roles, rights and responsibilities for decentralized...

    Published November 22nd 2007 by Routledge
68. Ecological Basis of Agroforestry

    Edited by Daizy Rani Batish, Ravinder Kumar Kohli, Shibu Jose, Harminder Pal Singh

    Faced with the growing problems of climate change, ecosystem degradation, declining agricultural productivity, and uncertain food security, modern agricultural scientists look for potential relief in an ancient practice. Agroforestry, if properly designed, can mitigate greenhouse effects, maintain...

    Published November 14th 2007 by CRC Press
69. Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories

    By Daniel Mandallaz

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics

    Sound forest management planning requires cost-efficient approaches to optimally utilize given resources. Emphasizing the mathematical and statistical features of forest sampling to assess classical dendrometrical quantities, Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories presents the statistical...

    Published October 25th 2007 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
70. Forests in Landscapes

    Ecosystem Approaches to Sustainability

    Edited by Jeffrey Sayer, Stewart Maginnis, Michelle Laurie

    Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

    ?At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground? CLAUDE MARTIN, WWF INTERNATIONAL ?For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs waiting to be turned into...

    Published September 30th 2007 by Routledge