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Our forests currently face many crises, ranging from barren land in many developing countries, to die-back trees in polluted parts of Europe, to the less tangible consequences of forest decline for planetary stability. The issues require urgent attention.Our Forests, Our Future answers this need.Coverage advocates radical reform of policies, calls for new political leadership, more personal involvement from men and women throughout the world, and more science. ... Read more

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Ben Law is an experienced and innovative woodsman with a deep commitment to practical sustainability. Here he presents a radical alternative to conventional woodland management that creates biodiverse, healthy environments, yields a great variety of value-added products, provides a secure livelihood for woodland workers and farmers, and benefits the local community. The author views the separation of agriculture from silviculture as unnecessarily limiting and argues for a new approach to planning that will encourage the creation of sustainably managed woodlands for the benefit of people, the local environment, and the global climate. Although specific to Britain, the principles of The Woodland Way will be understood by foresters worldwide.This brilliant book covers every aspect of woodland stewardship from both a practical and philosophical standpoint. Ben Law writes from the heart after long years of struggle with a whole host of naysayers who tried to convince him by fair means and foul to give up his vision for a renaissance in the countryside. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Where's the Permaculture please?
I found the title to this book deceptive. I don't consider interplanting a few fruit trees and listing their habitat a permaculture design. While it might be an step towards a forest garden the book neglects the ground cover layer, various companion planting, the nutrient cycling, water cycling and co-management of animals.
The book is mostly dedicated to traditional woodland managment in the United Kingdom. The author successfully introduces the concepts of coppicing and various derivitives. He also breifly mentions various ways of making a living from the forest, such as charcoal production and furniture making. Although, if you wish to pursue either of those activities you will need to find another source, as the details of these operations are missing entirely.
Finally the resources listed in the book are only sepecific to the United Kingdom, again a let down for someone not culturally familar with the management of coppice stands that has been going on for hundreds of years in places. So to summarize, if you want to learn how to coppice, read this book, otherwise choose somewhere else.

Not quite sure what I expected
Something to tell me exactly what to do with my Tennessee woods, I guess.And no British book is going to do that.

Last year a British on-line acquaintance told me that those tales of the early settlers in Tennessee being able to drive their ox-carts through the forest without getting stuck in the trees meant that the Indians were grooming the forest, had put a lot of thought and energy into making sure that the forest could sustain them.I wasn't sure what he meant.This book tells me.How he rotates his crops--cut some of the willow for artist's charcoal, a couple of years later, for rustic furniture, then let it come back from the stumps.In the meantime, blackberries can grow and fruit in the clearing, and a fairly rare bird just loves to nest there.The birds can move on to the next patch of cut back to the stumps by the time the blackberries are in too much shade and the willow is about ready to be cut a little bit for artist's charcoal.

So I'm now busily wondering how I apply this to my woods. ... Read more

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As remote sensing data and methods have become increasingly complex and varied - and increasingly reliable - so have their uses in forest management. New algorithms have been developed in virtually every aspect of image analysis, from classification to enhancements to estimating parameters. Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management reviews the literature and provides the tools for understanding and choosing remote sensing solutions for management problems.The book presents methods and operational examples of forest change detection, forest defoliation monitoring, forest classification, and forest growth modeling. The concluding chapters discuss research issues and the future of remote sensing technologies. The author draws a comprehensive picture of the state of the art in remote sensing data and methods applicable to sustainable forest management issues.Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, the author addresses the 'I tried that once, didn't work, so the whole thing is useless' syndrome that has created institutional inertia in some management agencies. We now know the proper processing steps, the most efficient algorithms, what kinds of maps can be generated, and by whom, and what level of confidence managers can invest in the resulting products. We know under what conditions aerial remote sensing missions should be executed, what are the limits, and where investments in equipment and training should be made.This authoritative book explores the remote sensing methods that need to be adopted and adapted to the forest science issues that are emerging through the sustainable forest management approach. This approach is not driven by technology, but by questions about its fundamental processes. Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management shows you how this technology can be used to answer these questions and achieve the goals of sustainable forest management. ... Read more

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Papers presented at a symposium. ... Read more

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The Challenge of Sustainable Forests is an innovative piece of work that provides a range of insights into forest resource use in Malaysia and the power relations behind the working of forest policy at the local level. It explores the rich debate on "development" and "environment" to cast new light on the social and ecological dimension of forest degradation.Taking politics seriously, the book draws on the micropolitics of scientific knowledge production, in particular sustained yield technology, to examine the institutionalization of scientific forestry in forest resource management. With insights derived from fieldwork in Pahang and Sarawak, the book argues that sustainable forest management as a movement and a scientific discipline is in danger of speaking a techno-bureaucratic language similar to sustained yield, unless fundamental questions about livelihood protection and access rights to environmental and forest resources are sufficiently addressed. This process is not helped by the greater importance accorded biological and economic imperatives in conservation discourse and practice. By way of exploring this issue, The Challenge of Sustainable Forests takes a detour to the Philippines where issues of livelihood, access rights and social justice have affected management practices more seriously than in Malaysia. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on December 27, 1999. The length of the article is 2854 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sustainable Forestry a 20th Century Concept for an Ancient Industry.
Author: John Henry
Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 27, 1999
Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 16Issue: 52Page: 39

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From recycled products to organic food, the movement to be "environmentally friendly" is now expanding into the forestry field. Recognizing this impact, Home Depot has committed to giving preference to selling "certified wood," proven to come from forests that meet certain biological and social sustainablility standards. Retailers and vendors can offer certified wood through the international Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and FSC accredited organizations like SmartWood, recently featured in People magazine. ... Read more

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"Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests" is the first book to examine the social and economic aspects of sustainable forestry and the resulting impacts on resource policy in Canada and the United States.

The extraction-oriented policies that dominated forest management in the two countries for more than a century have in recent decades given way to new approaches. Today, the U.S. and Canada face a common challenge: to achieve a sustainable form of forest management that has wide public support. The premise of "Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests" is that academics and students, resource professionals, policymakers, and members of industry, environmental, and forest community groups can benefit from a comparison of the situations on either side of the border. By comparing the challenges of sustainable forestry and the different approaches adopted in Canada and the U.S., this book points the way toward potential solutions to common problems.

Contributors include sociologists, research foresters, economists, political scientists, and geographers, as well as scholars in recreation and tourism. Together, their writings provide an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective on Canadian and U.S. efforts to manage public forests on a sustainable basis. ... Read more

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Based on a Conservation International conference in Panama, this book brings together the world's leading experts on rain forest development and sustainability. ... Read more

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Serious and welcome
As someone involved in trying to help slash and burn farmers in Honduras try alternatives ( see [...]) this side of the rainforest issue is one I would dearly love to do more, when the slashing and burning susbsides a little. A great book, packed with all kinds of useful information. It has whetted my appetite for further reading. ... Read more

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During its 200-year history the concept of sustainable forestecosystem management has been the object of scientific and politicaldiscussion, with varying degrees of intensity -- promoted withvehement fervour during periods of social or economic crisis, and lessintensely during periods of stability. This volume, which forms partof the book series Managing Forest Ecosystems, presentsstate-of-the-art contributions presented by 9 leading authors fromNorth America, Europe, Australia, and Southern Africa. If technicalknowledge is a constraint to the implementation of sustainablemanagement, this book contains a wealth of information which may beuseful to students and practitioners alike. The specific targetreadership includes company management, the legal and policyenvironment, and forestry administrators. This book's unique featureis its holistic approach which includes ecological, socio-political,and timber supply issues. ... Read more

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Research and policy toward sustainable forest management have often paidincomplete attention to the well being of local populations and their activities as forest managers.Where there has been recognition of local communities, the roles of marginalized groups andwomen are usually not well understood. This is despite evidence that equity and socialrelationships, including gender roles, are important factors in the ways that communities manageforest resources overall and adapt to change.

The Equitable Forest provides in-depth analyses of equity and social roles within thecontext of community-focused, adaptive collaborative management. An essential goal of adaptivecollaborative management is to use the knowledge and capacity of groups in local communitiesto enhance the health and well being of forests and the people who live in and around them.Based on long-term research in the tropics of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book providesdescriptive, analytical, and methodological tools for improving forest management.

A copublication with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). . ... Read more

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With a constant increase in population, there is growing pressure on the world forests to meet the demands for fuel, timber, pulpwood, clean and abundant water, wildlife, and recreation. This publication explores why soil is a strong candidate for providing key criteria and indicators of sustainable forestry.

Also available:

North American Agroforestry: A Integrated Science and Practice - ISBN 0891181423
A Spectrum of Achievement in Agronomy: Women Fellows of the Tri-Societies - ISBN 0891181458

The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America are prominent international scientific societies headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. The Societies specialize in peer-reviewed, high-quality science titles for a wide variety of audiences.
Some of the many areas we publish in include:

-Soils Methods and Management
-Crop Development and Improvement
-Agrosystem Management and the Global Food Crisis
-Environmental Conservation and Climatology ... Read more

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The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change recognizes that, in the formulation of a global strategy for reducing global emissions of carbon (the main factor in global warming) forests could play an important role. This book highlights that role and demonstrates how the forests of the world may be harvested judiciously and sustainably. The authors argue that the forests are more than just a source of timber and wood; they discuss the role that forests play in reducing global warming, in preventing soil erosion and in helping to minimize the loss of biodiversity. Drawing on the expertise of contributors associated with the analysis of forests, this book is an in depth and fascinating discussion as well as a policy guide for the sustainable management of forests.

The book begins by considering the relevant biophysical aspects of forest management and then goes on to study the value of forests for providing carbon sinks that absorb, in part, the carbon released into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. The book ends with a more detailed analysis of case studies in forest policy in North, Central and South America.

This book will be of great interest to academics and policy groups within the many areas of environmental economics including global climate change and sustainable development. ... Read more

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This book brings together experiences with a rich variety of sustainable forest and tree resource management partnerships in various countries in Latin America - Trinidad, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guyana, Brazil and Ecuador. The authors reflect on the scope, objectives, institutional organisation and benefits of partnerships, on the actors involved and excluded, and on the hindrances associated with overcoming cultural differences, institutional barriers, power imbalances and diverging interests. The question that runs as a common thread through this book is whether, and under what conditions, partnerships for sustainable forest and resource management can contribute to pro-poor, socially just and environmentally-friendly forest governance. By presenting the lessons learned from a wide range of partnerships, this book is a valuable resource for students, scholars and practitioners dealing with new governance forms in forest and natural resource management. ... Read more

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In Sustainable Forests: Global Challenges and Local Solutions, a collection of professional and scientific papers presented at an international conference on sustainable forestry, you learn about social and environmental issues related to forestry and indigenous people. It features, in easy-to-understand terms, different cultural, operational, and political perspectives on sustainable forest management. Professional foresters and conservationists and students of natural resources management, forestry, conservation biology, and Native American studies will come to understand how and why people's awareness of the alarming state of the world's forests is growing and indigenous people are becoming more adamant about protecting their traditional knowledge and inherent rights.

The conference “Sustainable Forests: Global Challenges and Local Solutions” was held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, to take stock of the extent to which conceptual and political developments have influenced and assisted forest management at the local level. Conference participants illustrate and discuss in quite practical terms some ways of relating social issues to forest conservation by drawing from a wealth of forest management and community experiences in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Their findings, presented in Sustainable Forests: Global Challenges and Local Solutions, help strengthen your arguments for delegating decision-making authority to local people and for demanding a precautionary approach to forest management. Some of the topics and issues you learn about include:

• empowerment of indigenous people
• social forestry and forest values
• community forest management, collaborative restructuring, and partnerships
• socioeconomic analysis of sustainable forestry
• biodiversity values and measures
  
  As Editor O. Thomas Bouman explains in the book's Preface, “The presenters accomplish both a reality check and a vision-building exercise toward forest sustainability. Clearly, there are distinct factors that cause and modify the loss of primary forests across regions. However, the [book] has brought home that the involvement and empowerment of communities and non-governmental groups are increasingly seen as the means of changing the way forests are managed. Nevertheless, the views expressed and the factual evidence presented . . . have left little doubt that the future of natural forests is bleak. This concern has been further aggravated because, even where the political commitment has been made, operational and scientific support for achieving forest sustainability is generally in its infancy.”