The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan by Conrad Totman

Reforesting Landscapes: Linking Pattern and Process (Landscape Series)

The twenty first century has visible the beginnings of an excellent recovery attempt in the direction of the world’s forests, followed by way of the emergence of an expanding literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of woodland disguise. but thus far, there's no quantity which synthesises present wisdom at the volume, tendencies, styles and drivers of reforestation.

Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires II

This e-book comprises peer-reviewed papers offered on the moment foreign convention on Modelling, tracking and administration of wooded area Fires. geared up via the Wessex Institute of know-how, united kingdom, in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, the convention was once. held in Kos, Greece, in June, 2010.

Landscape Boundaries: Consequences for Biotic Diversity and Ecological Flows

The emergence of panorama ecology in the course of the Nineteen Eighties represents an impor­ tant maturation of ecological concept. as soon as enamored with the conceptual fantastic 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 complicated interactions of weather, disturbance, and biotic methods.

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

This publication investigates the industrial, strategic, and political value of forests in early glossy and glossy Europe and indicates how struggles over this very important traditional source either formed and mirrored the ideologies and results of France's lengthy innovative interval. till the mid-nineteenth century, wooden was once the significant gas for cooking and heating and the first fabric for production all over the world and comprised each conceivable portion of commercial, household, army, and maritime task.