Precious Forests - Precious Earth

Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth. They are distributed across the globe. Forests account for 75% of the gross primary productivity of the Earth's biosphere, and contain 80% of the Earth's plant biomass. Human society and forests influence each other in both positive and negative ways. Forests provide ecosystem services to humans. Forests can also impose costs, affect people's health, and interfere with tourist enjoyment. This publication presents reviews and research results on negative and positive human interference on forests, as well as ecology, management, governance, policy and economic issues. The book consists of four sections with 12 chapters derived from around the world. Chapter 1 Proximate and Underlying Causes of Illegal Timber Trade in Uganda by Nelson Turyahabwe, Willy Kakuru, Martin Asiimwe and Patrick Byakagaba Chapter 2 Realities on Deforestation in Tanzania — Trends, Drivers, Implications and the Way Forward by Jafari R. Kideghesho Chapter 3 Dynamics of an Urban Forest in Response to Urban Development and Management Initiatives — Case of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve by Kalyani Chatterjea Chapter 4 Japanese Forestation Policies During the 20 Years Following World War II by Koji Matsushita Chapter 5 Decentralisation of Forest Management — Is it a Panacea to Challenges in Forest Governance in Uganda? by Nelson Turyahabwe, Patrick Byakagaba and David Mwesigye Tumusiime Chapter 6 Creating Modern Community Conservation Organizations and Institutions to Effect Successful Forest Conservation Change by Robert H. Horwich, Sam Shanee, Noga Shanee, Arnab Bose, Mark Fenn and Joydeep Chakraborty Chapter 7 Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of Different Wood Products by Zdravko Pandur, Marijan Šušnjar, Marko Zorić, Hrvoje Nevečerel and Dubravko Horvat Chapter 8 Forestry Entrepreneurs — Research on High Performance Business Model by Étienne St-Jean and Luc LeBel Chapter 9 Species Selection and Nursery Technique Adoption for Seedling Establishment in Bangladesh — Towards Enhancing Plantation Programme by Md. Salim Azad, Biswajit Kumar Sarker and Md. Abdul Matin Chapter 10 Integrating Wildlife Conservation with Commercial Silviculture — Demography of the Swainson’s Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii), a Migrant Bird of Conservation Concern in Southern Pine Forests, USA by Donata R. Henry, Darren A. Miller and Thomas W. Sherry Chapter 11 Possibilities and Perspectives of Agroforestry in Chhattisgarh by M.K. Jhariya, S.S. Bargali and Abhishek Raj Chapter 12 An Approach for Assessing Changes of Forest Land Use, Their Drivers, and Their Impact to Society and Environment by Mats Sandewall and Mersha Gebrehiwot ave4eva 2015 Спизжено у ExLib: avxhome.se/blogs/exLib Stole src from http://avxhome.se/blogs/exLib: tanas.olesya Snorgared,D3pZ4i & bhgvld,Denixxx (for softarchive) My gift to leosan GasGeo&BioMedLover from ru-board :-) Спизжено у ExLib: avxhome.se/blogs/exLib,Stole src from http://avxhome.se/blogs/exLib:,tanas.olesya,Snorgared,D3pZ4i & bhgvld,Denixxx,(for softarchive),My gift to leosan GasGeo&BioMedLover from ru-board :-)