Bad Harvest: The Timber Trade and the Degradation of Global Forests

ISBN-13: 9781138427082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Nigel Dudley

Opis

The world's forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, and with disastrous consequences.This book presents an incisive account of the role that the timber trade has played in the loss and degradation of forests around the world. It examines the environmental consequences of the trade on boreal, temporal and tropical regions.

Spis treści

A Vision for Forests * A Global Forest Crisis * The Timber Trade: A Changing Global Structure * Logging in Natural and Semi-natural Forests * Intensification of Management in Secondary Forests * Pulp, Paper and Pollution * Policy-based Solutions to Forestry Problems * Forest-based Solutions * Market-based Solutions * A strategy for Forests * Conclusions * Appendix * Notes and References * Index

O autorze

Nigel Dudley has worked on forestry issues for over 10 years, with Earth Resources Research, WWF, and Friends of the Earth. Jean-Paul Jeanreaud is head of WWWF International's Forest Programme, and Frances Sullivan is leader of WWWF's 'Forests for Life' campaign.