Smokejumper by Wil Mara

Reforesting Landscapes: Linking Pattern and Process (Landscape Series)

The twenty first century has noticeable the beginnings of a good recovery attempt in the direction of the world’s forests, observed by way of the emergence of an expanding literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of woodland disguise. but up to now, there is not any quantity which synthesises present wisdom at the volume, developments, styles and drivers of reforestation.

Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires II

This publication comprises peer-reviewed papers awarded on the moment overseas convention on Modelling, tracking and administration of woodland Fires. geared up by way of the Wessex Institute of expertise, united kingdom, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, the convention used to be. held in Kos, Greece, in June, 2010.

Landscape Boundaries: Consequences for Biotic Diversity and Ecological Flows

The emergence of panorama ecology throughout the Nineteen Eighties represents an impor­ tant maturation of ecological idea. as soon as enamored with the conceptual great thing about well-balanced, homogeneous ecosystems, ecologists now assert that a lot of the essence of ecological platforms lies of their lumpiness. Patches with differing homes and behaviors lie strewn around the land­ scape, items of the advanced interactions of weather, disturbance, and biotic techniques.

Forests in revolutionary France : conservation, community, and conflict 1669-1848

This publication investigates the industrial, strategic, and political significance of forests in early sleek and glossy Europe and indicates how struggles over this important common source either formed and mirrored the ideologies and results of France's lengthy progressive interval. until eventually the mid-nineteenth century, wooden was once the significant gas for cooking and heating and the first fabric for production around the world and comprised each that you can think of component to business, family, army, and maritime task.