Author: Fernando Reboredo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319084550
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the Portuguese forests and forestry sector, including its history, its total economic value, current threats and opportunities and future challenges, namely the need to incorporate more planning and technology in forest management practices. The methodological approach of analysing the forestry sector in terms of its total economic value, and the use of this new perspective to correctly perceive the forest sector and to base development strategies is unique. Also, the use of new methods and technologies in the Portuguese forestry sector will be an opportunity to share these experiences with a wider international audience. For example, fire incidence during the summer has almost no parallel in the Western World, implying that Portuguese forest landscapes function as a “natural lab of wildfires” from which much can be learned globally. Thus, the outcomes of the fire management policies adopted might represent important lessons for Mediterranean basin countries.
Forest Context and Policies in Portugal
Author: Fernando Reboredo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319084550
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the Portuguese forests and forestry sector, including its history, its total economic value, current threats and opportunities and future challenges, namely the need to incorporate more planning and technology in forest management practices. The methodological approach of analysing the forestry sector in terms of its total economic value, and the use of this new perspective to correctly perceive the forest sector and to base development strategies is unique. Also, the use of new methods and technologies in the Portuguese forestry sector will be an opportunity to share these experiences with a wider international audience. For example, fire incidence during the summer has almost no parallel in the Western World, implying that Portuguese forest landscapes function as a “natural lab of wildfires” from which much can be learned globally. Thus, the outcomes of the fire management policies adopted might represent important lessons for Mediterranean basin countries.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319084550
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the Portuguese forests and forestry sector, including its history, its total economic value, current threats and opportunities and future challenges, namely the need to incorporate more planning and technology in forest management practices. The methodological approach of analysing the forestry sector in terms of its total economic value, and the use of this new perspective to correctly perceive the forest sector and to base development strategies is unique. Also, the use of new methods and technologies in the Portuguese forestry sector will be an opportunity to share these experiences with a wider international audience. For example, fire incidence during the summer has almost no parallel in the Western World, implying that Portuguese forest landscapes function as a “natural lab of wildfires” from which much can be learned globally. Thus, the outcomes of the fire management policies adopted might represent important lessons for Mediterranean basin countries.
With Broadax and Firebrand
Author: Warren Dean
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520208862
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
"An unprecedented historical account of the destruction of Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a required reading for those committed to its preservation, written with genuine love and knowledge."—José Roberto Borges, Brazil Program Director, Rainforest Action Network "After reading this volume, no one could fail to realize the uniqueness and importance of these coastal forests, which have played such a fascinating role in the history of Brazil."—Ghillean T. Prance, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520208862
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
"An unprecedented historical account of the destruction of Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a required reading for those committed to its preservation, written with genuine love and knowledge."—José Roberto Borges, Brazil Program Director, Rainforest Action Network "After reading this volume, no one could fail to realize the uniqueness and importance of these coastal forests, which have played such a fascinating role in the history of Brazil."—Ghillean T. Prance, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires
Author: Koldo Trapaga Monchet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000892093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book aims to shed light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from the 14th to the 19th centuries, combining various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and different timespans (short-term and long-term studies). Three main themes are discussed in depth here: firstly, the roots of current conservationism in the Iberian Peninsula; the evolution of the forest policies set in motion at the local, regional and national levels to meet the demand for wood and timber; and the long-standing impact of naval empirical forestry on the conservation and transformation of the forest landscape. Therefore, the book attempts, on the one hand, to unravel the forest policies and empirical forestry implemented in the Iberian Peninsula as the roots or origins of what we refer to nowadays as "sustainability", and to assess the contribution of imperial forestry to landscape planning and the conservation of forest resources, on the other, and, finally, to break away from the prevailing theological narrative that shipbuilding was the main agent of forest destruction in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula, for which both quantitative and qualitative analyses will be conducted. This book could be of maximum interest to environmental and social historians and researchers, and anyone devoted to conducting research on the emergence and evolution of the concept of "sustainability" with respect to the governance and the historical transformation of woodlands around the world.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000892093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book aims to shed light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from the 14th to the 19th centuries, combining various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and different timespans (short-term and long-term studies). Three main themes are discussed in depth here: firstly, the roots of current conservationism in the Iberian Peninsula; the evolution of the forest policies set in motion at the local, regional and national levels to meet the demand for wood and timber; and the long-standing impact of naval empirical forestry on the conservation and transformation of the forest landscape. Therefore, the book attempts, on the one hand, to unravel the forest policies and empirical forestry implemented in the Iberian Peninsula as the roots or origins of what we refer to nowadays as "sustainability", and to assess the contribution of imperial forestry to landscape planning and the conservation of forest resources, on the other, and, finally, to break away from the prevailing theological narrative that shipbuilding was the main agent of forest destruction in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula, for which both quantitative and qualitative analyses will be conducted. This book could be of maximum interest to environmental and social historians and researchers, and anyone devoted to conducting research on the emergence and evolution of the concept of "sustainability" with respect to the governance and the historical transformation of woodlands around the world.
Illegal Logging
Author: Luca Tacconi
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849771677
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849771677
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Estudios Y Documentos de Política Científica
Working Forests in the Neotropics
Author: Daniel Zarin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231129060
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
-- Thomas Lovejoy, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231129060
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
-- Thomas Lovejoy, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Depositions
Author: Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477327606
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx's "depositions," this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country's military dictatorship.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477327606
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx's "depositions," this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country's military dictatorship.
Fueling Mexico
Author: Germán Vergara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108831273
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) became the basis of Mexican society.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108831273
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) became the basis of Mexican society.
Bibliographical Bulletin
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description