Author: Jack K. WinjumPublisher:
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Category : Reforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Large-Scale Reforestation
Author: Jack K. WinjumPublisher:
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Category : Reforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Geographic Index of Environmental Articles
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Category : Environmental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Terrestrial Biospheric Carbon Fluxes Quantification of Sinks and Sources of CO2
Author: Joe WisniewskiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401119821
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 677
Book Description
Towards the Balance and Management of the Carbon Budget of the Biosphere The current state of misunderstanding of the global C cycle and our failure to resolve an issue that has been debated for 100 years (Jones and Henderson-Sellers, 1990) speaks loudly about the limitations of modem science when faced with the complexity of the biosphere. Efforts to understand and balance the global C budget have gone through several phases. First was a holistic view of the C budget as part of efforts to understand the geochemistry of the Earth (e. g. , Clarke, 1908). Next, came a period of data collection and sythesis which focused on the diversity of sectors of the biosphere. This phase culminated in the early 1970's with the realization that humans were greatly impacting the global C cycle as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory (Keeling et al. , 1973). New syntheses of the global C budget emerged at this time (Woodwell and Pacan, 1973; Bolin et al. , 1979). The next phase was one of controversy and intense focus on particular sectors of the biosphere. The controversy rested on discrepancies about the role of the terrestrial biota in the global C cycle and the failure to account for sufficient C sinks to absorb all the C emitted by land-use change in the tropics (Woodwell et al. , 1978, 1983; Houghton et al. , 1983).
Target Seedling Symposium
Author: Analysis of Ratings
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Category : Landscape assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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General Technical Report RM.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems
Author: Walter C. OechelPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461222400
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Global warming is likely to have the greatest impact at high latitudes, making the Arctic an important region both for detecting global climate change and for studying its effects on terrestrial ecosystems. The chapters in this volume address current and anticipated impacts of global climate change on Arctic organisms, populations, ecosystem structure and function, biological diversity, and the atmosphere.
Balancing Act
Author: J P Hamish KimminsPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774842853
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In the past decade, there has been much debate over the environmental impact of forestry. People are justifiably concerned about what is happening to the local and global forest environments, but they are also confused by the polarized rhetoric that has characterized both sides of the debate. In Balancing Act, Hamish Kimmins calls for a balanced, more objective approach to forestry issues in order to bridge the gap between the most extreme opponents in the debate. He suggests that we need to begin with a common understanding of what forestry is about and how forest ecosystems work. He outlines the scientific and ecological aspects of the major environmental issues facing British Columbia and the world today, arguing that we need to disentangle the scientific from the value-based social aspects of these questions. He also contends that much of the current debate about forests and their management ignores the time dimension of ecosystems, and he calls for a more dynamic view of current environmental issues in forestry -- one that accounts for change. The first few chapters provide an outline of the basic principles of forestry and ecology, and subsequent chapters discuss the major environmental issues facing forestry in the 1990s. These include clearcutting, slashburning, management chemicals, old growth, biological diversity, 'new forestry, ' climate change, acid rain, the comparison between temperate and tropical forestry, and long-term decisions in forestry. Balancing Act is essential reading for those who are searching for an objective, accurate, and readable evaluation of the issues at the heart of the forestry/environment debate. By emphasizing that forests are not static but change over time, Kimmins adds an important, often ignored, dimension to the discussion. Only by understanding all the intricacies of the ecosystems can we learn to manage our forests in a sustainable fashion.