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Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden
The latest findings about the environmental, social, and economic impact of sustainable forestry Forestry is one of the most important foundations of the Scandinavian economies. Sustainable Forestry in Southern Sweden: The SUFOR Research Project closely reviews the findings from the eight-year research program first launched in 1997 that searched for ways to maintain sustainable forestry in the region. Respected scholars and experts discuss ways to bridge the chasm separating the world of research with the world of trade and industry. Biodiversity, the impact of humans, environmental conditions, and other facets of sustainability are all presented and discussed in detail. Sustainable Forestr...
On the Nature of Ecological Paradox
This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological–and from an insular perspective, successful–struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we...
Leśna terapia
Zanurzenie w las pomoże ci odzyskać zdrowie, spokój i równowagę. Przyroda jest w stanie dać ci o wiele więcej niż tylko zwyczajną rozrywkę oraz ucieczkę od zgiełku miasta i jego zanieczyszczeń. Las to źródło życiodajnego tlenu, ale też magazyn niewyczerpanej energii, która oddziałuje na zmysły, psychikę, pracę mózgu i odporność. Możesz w nim odnaleźć także szczyptę magii i poczuć w kontakcie z drzewami odrobinę transcendencji. Autorka tej książki to dendroterapeutka i praktykująca przewodniczka kąpieli leśnych. Podpowiada, jak dzięki obcowaniu z drzewami odzyskać więź ze swoimi korzeniami oraz zatroszczyć się o zdrowie i dobre samopoczucie. To pier...
Summary of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Białowiea Puszcza is a forest in Poland that contains Europe’s last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness. It was a Polish national park in 1921, but the Nazis invaded and took it over, except for a pristine core that was left intact. #2 The Puszcza is a pale copy of what Europe used to look like. It is surprising how familiar it feels, and how complete on some cellular level. #3 The Polish forester Andrzej Bobiec was hired by the Polish national park service. He was fired for protesting management plans that cut closer to the pristine core of the Puszcza. In various international journals, he blasted official policies that asserted that forests will die without our help. #4 The Belovezhskaya Pushcha is the last remaining habitat of the wisent, a species of European bison. The forest is still growing, but Belarus’s iron curtain stands in the way of people and animals freely mixing.
Saving the World's Deciduous Forests
Deciduous forests have been remarkably resilient throughout their history, recovering from major shifts in climate and surviving periods of massive deforestation. But today the world’s great forests confront more ominous threats than ever before. This visionary book is the first to examine forests consisting of oaks, maples, hickories, beeches, chestnuts, birches and ecologically similar animals and plants on three continents—East Asia, Europe, and North America—to reveal their common origin back in time, the ecological patterns they share, and the approaches to conservation that have been attempted on their behalf. Although these forests face common problems, threats due to human activities vary. Different land use and agricultural practices on the three continents, as well as different attitudes about what is worth preserving, have led to strikingly different approaches to forest conservation. Robert Askins explores the strengths and weaknesses of conservation efforts across the continents and concludes that the ideal strategy for the future will blend the best ideas from each.
Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles
In Europe's last primeval forest, at Poland's easternmost border with Belarus, the deep past of ancient oaks, woodland bison, and thousands of species of insects and fungi collides with authoritarian and communist histories. Foresters, biologists, environmentalists, and locals project the ancient Białowieża Forest as a series of competing icons in struggles over memory, land, and economy, which are also struggles about whether to log or preserve the woodland; whether and how to celebrate the mixed ethnic Polish/Belarusian peasant past; and whether to align this eastern outpost with ultraright Polish political parties, neighboring Belarus, or the European Union. Eunice Blavascunas provides ...
The World Without Us
Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages "On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go." What if mankind disappeared right now, forever... what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's climate ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and our myriad plastics? And what would our final legacy be? Speaking to experts in fields as diverse as oil production and ecology, and visiting the places that have escaped recent human activity to discover how they have adapted to life without us, Alan Weisman paints an intriguing picture of the future of Earth. Exploring key concerns of our time, this absorbing thought experiment reveals a powerful - and surprising - picture of our planet's future.
