Author: Adèle Crowder
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Fowler Herbarium, Department of Biology, Queen's University
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Roger C. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521573221
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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A coherent, readable summary of the technical information available on savannas, barrens and rock outcrop plant communities.

Author: Paul Brethen Cavers
Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Publisher: NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: Matti Palo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401147469
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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This book addresses current global and regional issues concerning the world's forests, societies and the environment from an independent and non-governmental point of view. A main message is that cooperation on a global scale is not only commendable, but essential if solutions to the problems facing the world's forests are to be found. To achieve this, modern science needs to find a clearer picture of relationships between forests, human activity and the environment and of the consequences of environmental change for the ability of societies to survive. Part I, Editorial Perspectives, is analyzing the ongoing globalization processes of forests, societies and the environment. Part II, Society and Environment, reviews worldwide trends with significance for the future of forests and forestry. While the trends are influenced by forest sector issues, that sector is influenced to a much larger extent by external factors - such as demography, urbanization, or technological development. Part III, Importance of Forests, looks at the value of the goods and services of forests; tangible and intangible; market and non-market; and concludes that failure to recognize their full value is one of the crucial impediments to sustainable development. In Part IV, Global Forum, scientists take up global forestry themes - deforestation, trade and the environment, climate change, biodiversity - with the aim of stimulating wider discussion. Part V, Regional Forum, looks at major themes of particular relevance to Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America and Europe, such as farm and agroforestry, corruption and concessions, urban forestry and environmental conflicts. Part VI introduces the special theme - forest sectors in transition economies. Teams of scientists from Russia and China focus on the implications of the transition from plan to market economy, illuminating both the very different nature of the forest sector in the two countries and the different transition paths that they have adopted. In the past millennium the entire world has been discovered. In the past half century the contribution of forests to the economy worldwide has been perceived, while only recently have their societal and environmental benefits been globally recognized. Globalization is a demanding process requiring knowledge and information. This book offers knowledge, facts and information – but also values from diverse human and cultural perspectives – about world forests, society and environment to help us towards equity in our use of the global forest, to create a clearer vision on a unasylva.

Author: United States. Patent and Trademark Office
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1434

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Author: Andrea Pieroni
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857455788
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?

Author: Ákos Máthé
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030449300
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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This volume is aimed at offering an insight into the present knowledge of the vast domain of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants with a focus on North America. In this era of global climate change the volume is meant to provide an important contribution to a better understanding of the diverse world of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant research, production and utilization.

Author: Craig R. Elevitch
Publisher: PAR
ISBN: 0970254458
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 818

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"This book is for the person who lives in the tropics or subtropics and is interested in native plants, who wants to know about plants that are useful, who loves to watch plants grow, and who is willing to work with them. Such a person might ask questions like, Where will they grow? How do I grow them? Are they good to eat? How are they used? What are their names? These questions and more are answered here."--Préface