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Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Emanuel Fritz written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412826039
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book In a Dark Wood written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Dark Wood presents a history of debates among ecologists over what constitutes good forestry, and a critique of the ecological reasoning behind contemporary strategies of preservation, including the Endangered Species Act. Chase argues that these strategies, in many instances adopted for political, rather than scientific reasons, fail to promote biological diversity and may actually harm more creatures than they help. At the same time, Chase offers examples of conservation strategies that work, but which are deemed politically incorrect and ignored. In a Dark Wood provides the most thoughtful and complete account yet written of radical environmentalism. And it challenges the fundamentalâbut largely unexaminedâassumptions of preservationism, such as those concerning whether there is a "balance of nature," whether all branches of ecology are really science, and whether ecosystems exist. In his new introduction, Chase evaluates the response to his book and reports on recent developments in environmental science, policy, and politics. In a Dark Wood was judged by a recent national poll to be one of the one hundred best nonfiction books written in the English language during the twentieth century. A smashing good read, this book will be of interest to environmentalists, ecologists, philosophers, biologists, and bio-ethicists, and anyone concerned about ecological issues.
Author : Alston Chase
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135151315X
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book In a Dark Wood written by Alston Chase and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Dark Wood presents a history of debates among ecologists over what constitutes good forestry, and a critique of the ecological reasoning behind contemporary strategies of preservation, including the Endangered Species Act. Chase argues that these strategies, in many instances adopted for political, rather than scientific reasons, fail to promote biological diversity and may actually harm more creatures than they help. At the same time, Chase offers examples of conservation strategies that work, but which are deemed politically incorrect and ignored. In a Dark Wood provides the most thoughtful and complete account yet written of radical environmentalism. And it challenges the fundamental—but largely unexamined—assumptions of preservationism, such as those concerning whether there is a "balance of nature," whether all branches of ecology are really science, and whether ecosystems exist. In his new introduction, Chase evaluates the response to his book and reports on recent developments in environmental science, policy, and politics. In a Dark Wood was judged by a recent national poll to be one of the one hundred best nonfiction books written in the English language during the twentieth century. A smashing good read, this book will be of interest to environmentalists, ecologists, philosophers, biologists, and bio-ethicists, and anyone concerned about ecological issues.
Author : Thomas Princen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026266190X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)
Download or read book The Logic of Sufficiency written by Thomas Princen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organize itself, structure its industry, shape its consumption? Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted to ecological constraint. They have changed behavior; they have built institutions. And they have developed norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges—at once global, technological, and commercial—require new behaviors, new institutions, and new principles. In this highly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is not about denial, not about sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when resource depletion and overconsumption are real, sufficiency is about doing well. It is about good work and good governance; it is about goods that are good only to a point. With examples ranging from timbering and fishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensible and yet absolutely contrary to modern society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues that seeking enough when more is possible is both intuitive and rational—personally, organizationally and ecologically rational. And under global ecological constraint, it is ethical. Over the long term, an economy—indeed a society—cannot operate as if there's never enough and never too much.
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
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Total Pages : 2210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee ... and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 2210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Total Pages : 1696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Harvey Defebaugh
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Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Barrel and Box and Packages written by Edgar Harvey Defebaugh and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California Agricultural Experiment Station
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Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California written by California Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Proceedings RMRS. written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley
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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forest Survey Release written by California Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brett M. Bennett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262329921
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Plantations and Protected Areas written by Brett M. Bennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas. Today, the world's forests are threatened by global warming, growing demand for wood products, and increasing pressure to clear tropical forests for agricultural use. Economic globalization has enabled Western corporations to export timber processing jobs and import cheap wood products from developing countries. Timber plantations of exotic, fast-growing species supply an ever-larger amount of the world's wood. In response, many countries have established forest areas protected from development. In this book, Brett Bennett views today's forestry issues from a historical perspective. The separation of wood production from the protection of forests, he shows, stems from entangled environmental, social, political, and economic factors. This divergence—driven by the concomitant intensification of production and creation of vast protected areas—is reshaping forest management systems both public and private. Bennett shows that plantations and protected areas evolved from, and then undermined, an earlier integrated forest management system that sought both to produce timber and to conserve the environment. He describes the development of the science and profession of forestry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; discusses the twentieth-century creation of timber plantations in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia; and examines the controversies over deforestation that led to the establishment of protected areas. Bennett argues that the problems associated with the bifurcation of forest management—including the loss of forestry knowledge necessary to manage large ecosystems for diverse purposes—suggest that a more integrated model would be preferable.
Author : Harold K. Steen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803487
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The U.S. Forest Service written by Harold K. Steen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. History Service: The Retirement Association at the University of Washington
Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1952-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book National Wilderness Preservation Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. California Forest and Range Experiment Station
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Forest Survey Release written by United States. California Forest and Range Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fortuna Depot Museum Susan J.P. O’Hara and Alex Service
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467127760
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Mills of Humboldt County, 1910-1945 written by Fortuna Depot Museum Susan J.P. O’Hara and Alex Service and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequoia sempervirens, California coastal redwood, was Humboldt County's economic mainstay from the 1850s onwards. By the early 20th century, harvesting "red gold" was the major industry along California's North Coast, with Humboldt at the forefront of the industry. The first half of the 20th century saw technological changes in logging and milling. New uses for redwood included cigar boxes, "presto-logs," and core logs for plywood. The industry began reforestation practices, growing their own seedlings as early as 1907. World War I and the Great Depression impacted the industry, as did activism to preserve the redwoods. In the 1930s, the largest stand of old-growth redwoods was preserved, and the turmoil of the 1935 strike resulted in several strikers being killed in Eureka. This book explores Humboldt's early-20th-century lumber industry and day-to-day realities of life in the mills and woods in an era underrepresented in published logging history.
Author : Jared Farmer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393241270
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Trees in Paradise: A California History written by Jared Farmer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California. California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. They imported the blue-green eucalypts whose tangy fragrance was thought to cure malaria. They built the lucrative "Orange Empire" on the sweet juice and thick skin of the Washington navel, an industrial fruit. They lined their streets with graceful palms to announce that they were not in the Midwest anymore. To the north the majestic coastal redwoods inspired awe and invited exploitation. A resource in the state, the durable heartwood of these timeless giants became infrastructure, transformed by the saw teeth of American enterprise. By 1900 timber firms owned the entire redwood forest; by 1950 they had clear-cut almost all of the old-growth trees. In time California’s new landscape proved to be no paradise: the eucalypts in the Berkeley hills exploded in fire; the orange groves near Riverside froze on cold nights; Los Angeles’s palms harbored rats and dropped heavy fronds on the streets below. Disease, infestation, and development all spelled decline for these nonnative evergreens. In the north, however, a new forest of second-growth redwood took root, nurtured by protective laws and sustainable harvesting. Today there are more California redwoods than there were a century ago. Rich in character and story, Trees in Paradise is a dazzling narrative that offers an insightful, new perspective on the history of the Golden State and the American West.
