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Forest Quality

Forest Quality

Nigel Dudley; Rodolphe Schlaepfer; William Jackson; Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud; Sue Stolton

Earthscan Ltd
2006
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Deforestation is frequently a topic of discussion in the environmental arena, but it is not just the number of trees that matters; the quality of the forest is also important. Even where the forest area is stable or increasing, there are often rapid changes in its character. Natural forests are being replaced by plantations or by intensively managed forests. Around the world, forests are becoming younger and less diverse, in both species and structure; this has important impacts for biodiversity and also affects many human values. In this groundbreaking text, forest quality is discussed as a useful new concept in forest conservation and management. Three main assessment criteria are used: authenticity; environmental benefits; and social and economic benefits. The book describes a methodology and protocol for collecting and analysing data, and outlines in detail the approach required with each indicator. The authors advocate a landscape approach to assessment and demonstrate how assessment works through a series of case studies that show how this approach can be used in many ways to help forest conservation management. This hands-on manual is for professionals involved in forestry, conservation and resource management worldwide, and contains case study material from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America that demonstrates practical uses of the new 'landscape' approach to forest conservation. Published with IUCN and WWF
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Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills

Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills

Léa Lacan

James Currey
2024
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Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by the species-rich diversity they contain. This book explores human-sylvan relations in the Katimok forest, Baringo highlands, Kenya, and asks us to rethink the forest beyond questions of access and control of natural resources, as a habitat where forest politics and human lives are inextricably intertwined. Tracing the development of the Katimok forest from colonial times to the present day, the author shows how - as with many forests in Africa - it has become constructed as a category and territory of nature under state control: an area both to be protected and turned into exploitable resources. For those living within and on the boundaries of the forest, this social-ecological transformation has had a significant impact. Despite now being settled outside Katimok itself, dispossessed by administrators heedless of local management practices, many former residents continue to maintain a close connection with the forest, not only to sustain their livelihoods, but also to maintain their intimate links with ancestral lands, where their stories and memories are materially inscribed and powerfully invoked. Intimate connections to the forest are revealed to be as political as the use of its resources, culminating in local claims for redress of historical dispossessions.
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Forest Fire

Forest Fire

Jan Burchett; Sara Vogler

Stripes Publishing
2009
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Ben and Zoe's latest mission takes them to South Borneo. An orang-utan has set up home on a palm oil plantation and is resisting all attempts to bring him to the safety of the nearby reservation. But when the twins discover that illegal logging has been taking place, it becomes clear that the orang-utan isn't the only one in grave danger.
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Forest Music

Forest Music

Susan Connolly

Shearsman Books
2009
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Forest Music is Susan Connolly's second full-length collection. Many poems in the book depict Susan Connolly's personal encounter with her landscape. Living in Drogheda, close to the Boyne Valley, her poems celebrate the famous archaeological monuments of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange alongside local landmarks: the Maiden Tower, the seawall at Baltray and the discovery in a back garden of a cobbled garden dating from the early nineteenth century. Her recent work is more experimental in form. These poems involve a typography in which the visual pattern corresponds in some way to the sense of the word or phrase represented. Dissatisfied with words always moving from left to right across the page, in these poems words can be vertical instead of horizontal, and move in circles and spirals as the need dictates.
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Forest Biodiversity Research, Monitoring and Modeling

Forest Biodiversity Research, Monitoring and Modeling

Taylor Francis Ltd
1998
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The first of two volumes documenting the latest findings on forest biodiversity, this book presents original, new contributions by some three hundred scientists from over forty countries. Researchers from the massive Smithsonian/MAB Biological Diversity Program cover the feasibility of using long-term inventory plots as a framework for monitoring multi-layer vegetation, socioeconomic applications of research results, and promotion of multidisciplinary research and training. The book is in five main sections covering first the methodology for forest monitoring and modeling and then the results of research from Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia/Pacific.
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Forest Fires

Forest Fires

Philip Nori Omi

ABC-CLIO
2005
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From killer fires to ecosystem rehabilitation, an exhaustive survey exploring the ecological, social, and economic consequences of managing fires in U.S. wildland areas.Fire management involves protecting natural resources from fire but also using controlled burning for land management purposes. Who are the stewards of land management and the researchers who devote their entire careers studying fire? How are ecosystems restored after major fires? What are the economic ramifications and what assessment tools are available?Forest Fires: A Reference Handbook explores the historical, ecological, economic, and social dimensions of wildland combustion and their impacts in North America. Explaining how legislation and public perception have been shaped by historic fires and fire seasons, particular emphasis is placed on the summer of 2000 as a way of understanding and managing future fires.Provides a detailed chronology of events, legislative acts, policy controversies, and precedents for fire management in the United States, illustrating how the fires discussed reflect a continuation of trends established in the 20th century and before Includes biographies of past and present forest fire management leaders, scientists, academicians, and policy makers
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Forest of Bowland

Forest of Bowland

Harvey Map Services Ltd.

Harvey Map Services Ltd
2008
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Two-in one - Great value maps of the Forest of Bowland. One side for walking, one side for cycling. This detailed waterproof map of the Forest of Bowland is purpose-made for the outdoors. Made in co-operation with the Forest of Bowland AONB, the walking map is at the popular 1:25000 scale and shows full detail for safe navigation in the hills. The cycling map at 1:55000 shows a variety of suggested cycling routes, including some off-road, as well as the network of minor roads & tracks. Information useful for cyclists - such as cycle shops, cycle hire, steep hills etc.
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Forest Farm Husbandry

Forest Farm Husbandry

Matthew Fedden

Practical Action Publishing
1988
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Based on experience at Ghana's Technology Consultancy Centre, this handbook describes successful methods of minimum tillage farming and alley cropping. It suggests that alley cropping offers great promise as a soil conservation and enriching technique.
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Forest Politics

Forest Politics

David Humphreys

Earthscan Ltd
2009
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'An important and timely book' from the Foreword by Stanley Johnson 'A complete and absorbing history of a decade of intense international politics offers many insights for future negotiators of sustainable solutions' Stephen Bass, International Institute for Environment and Development 'Skillfully navigates the jungle of forest politics, leaving us in no doubt that the verbal commitment to save the world's forests has yet to be translated into action on the ground. The way forward must clearly lie in political commitments and international cooperation if forests are to continue to preserve life on Earth' Francis Sullivan, World Wide Fund for Nature Global deforestation and its attendant processes - including soil degradation, climate change and the loss of biological diversity - emerged as international political issues during the 1980s, prompting politicians to seek consensus on programmes and policies for the conservation and sustainable management of forests. Yet global initiatives have been bedevilled by tensions between the North and South and between governments, industry, local communities and indigenous peoples. Meanwhile, rates of deforestation in the tropics are increasing, and international political efforts are demonstrably failing. Forest Politics carefully traces the evolution of international cooperation on forests, from the inception of the controversial International Tropical Timber Organization and the failed Tropical Forestry Action Programme in the mid-1980s, to the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests in the mid-1990s. The book also provides a detailed analysis of the negotiating stances of the parties involved in the divisive negotiations that rook place prior to the 1992 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro and the equally factious negotiations for the International Tropical Timber Agreement of 1994. It provides a fascinating insight into the nature of such processes, illustrating the difficulties that arise when concepts such as 'global commons' come into conflict with national sovereignty. Complete with annexes of important political documents, and making extensive use of primary source material and interviews with participants. Forest Politics presents case studies of all the major forest negotiations over the last 13 years. It is an essential reference point for policy makers, environmental campaigners and students, and required reading for all those who care about the future of the world's forests. David Humphreys is Research Fellow in Global Environmental Change at the Open University. Originally published in 1996
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Forest of Feelings

Forest of Feelings

Carol Holliday; Jo Browning Wroe

Lda
2012
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This is an award-winning resource to help your children understand and explore emotions. "Forest of Feelings" is a fantastically illustrated and enchanting story about Ben's quest to save a forest, and a powerful means to promote positive emotional well-being in children. In sharing Ben's adventures in the forest children will be able to explore the emotions of anger, sadness, fear and jealousy. This book includes an introduction to understanding and exploring emotions with children, providing excellent advice on how to encourage each child's emotional development. Each chapter also includes teacher's notes, creative activities and a Circle Time script. It contains 96 A4 pages.
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Forest Gardening in Practice: An Illustrated Practical Guide for Homes, Communities and Enterprises

Forest Gardening in Practice: An Illustrated Practical Guide for Homes, Communities and Enterprises

Tomas Remiarz

Permanent Publications
2017
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A forest garden is a place where nature and people meet halfway, between the canopy of trees and the soil underfoot. It doesn't have to look like a forest - what's important is that natural processes are allowed to unfold, to the benefit of plants, people and other creatures. For three decades experimental forest gardens have been planted in temperate cities and rural sites, in households, neighbourhoods, community gardens, parks, market gardens and plant nurseries. Forest Gardening In Practice is the first indepth review of forest gardening with living, best practice examples. It highlights the four core skills of forest gardeners: ecology, horticulture, design, cooperation. It is for hobby gardeners, smallholders, community gardeners and landscape professionals. Forest Gardening In Practice features: A history of forest gardening; Step-by step guide to creating your own edible ecosystem; 121 in-depth case studies of established forest gardens and edible landscapes in Europe and the USA; Chapters on integrating animals, learning, enterprises, working in community and public settings.
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Forest Nymphs

Forest Nymphs

Gerardo Surzin

Mereo Books
2018
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Over the land of Morenia, dark clouds are forming, and flowers, trees and grass are changing to ash. A young peasant boy, Aragel, finds a hidden letter from his dead father which describes the Forest of Axter, the most beautiful thing he has ever seen and a sight which had made him feel a happiness he had never known before or since, adding mysteriously, even the dark clouds could not resist their power.' Is the mysterious forest the key to fighting the curse which has overcome Arya? Aragel intends to find out. So begins a journey which takes Aragel to the caves of the Skeleton King and over the Crystal Mountains to a place where he hopes to discover the answer to his quest, and find the mysterious Forest Nymphs. The second and concluding part of the story, Forest Nymphs: Into the World of Shadows, will follow shortly.
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Forest Gardening

Forest Gardening

Robert Hart

Green Books
1996
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Forest gardening is a way of working with Nature which is not only productive and requires minimal maintenance, but creates great environmental benefits. As Herbert Girardet says in his Foreword, "Robert Hart was a rare person . . . For decades he waged a battle for life, patiently writing books and articles and quietly planting trees on his small farm in Shropshire. Robert created a magnificent forest garden which had a profound influence on the way people cultivated their land. It was a garden dedicated to human needs for fruit, nuts, vegetables and plant medicines. But it was at the same time a celebration of the myriad interactions of life, based on profound observations, both intuitive and scientific, of how different life forms interact in order to stimulate and support one another."
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Forest Futures – Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas

Forest Futures – Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas

Antje Linkenbach

Seagull Books London Ltd
2008
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Under their slogan, "Ecology is permanent economy", the 'Chipko Movement' drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Taking its name from the Hindi word for 'embrace', villagers hugged trees and prevented contractors' from felling them. Dedicated to the protection of forests, the movement spread throughout India in the 1970s, changing the country's natural resource policy. "Forest Futures" argues that the hype took Chipko from its locale and took control away from local people. The portrayal of the Chipko movement largely ignored local histories of resistance, local conflicts and local forest practices. The book argues that the issues of forest control and sustainable forest use have to be seen in the context of concerns about social and economic development, regional autonomy, and the preferred futures of the local people.
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Forest Adventures

Forest Adventures

Claire Gillman; Sam Martin; John Blaney

Modern Books
2019
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Forest Adventures will prepare children of all ages for antics and escapades all year round. It includes plenty of ideas and inspiration for forest games, activities and crafts that they can do on their own or get the whole family involved in. From spotting wildlife and building tree houses, to bushcraft, stargazing and making homemade lemonade, this book is packed full of adventures and excitement to enjoy, whatever the weather. In winter: learn how to create a campfire, build an igloo, or make a bird feeder. In summer: discover how to track animals, plan a picnic, or build a sundial. Separated into helpful categories that divide activities by type?including ‘Outdoor Explorations’, ‘Water Escapades’ and ‘Fabulous Feasting’?this guide enables children to connect with nature throughout the seasons.
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Forest Folk, The

Forest Folk, The

M Rogers

Button Books
2015
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Teach your children about the animals of the forest with this fun and educational book. Five animals are explored through rhyme, pictures and pull-out cards to construct into 3D figures. Adults will be able to read the short playful rhyme to children and look at the bright illustrations to teach them about their habits and environment.
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