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Many terms often used to describe old-growth forests imply that these forests are less vigorous, less productive and less stable than younger forests. But research in the last two decades has yielded results that challenge the view of old-growth forests being in decline. Given the importance of forests in battling climate change and the fact that old-growth forests are shrinking at a rate of 0.5% per year, these new results have come not a moment too soon.

This book is the first ever to focus on the ecosystem functioning of old-growth forests. It is an exhaustive compendium of...

In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland uberwachen die Behorden der Lander die Einhaltung der Vorschriften, die fur das Inverkehrbringen und die Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln gelten.

Mit dem Pflanzenschutz-Kontrollprogramm wurde ab 2004 eine landerubergreifende Initiative zur Verbesserung der Uberwachung pflanzenschutzrechtlicher Vorschriften eingefuhrt. Ziel ist ein bundesweit harmonisiertes Verfahren bei der Durchfuhrung und Berichterstattung der Kontrollen. Das Programm wird nach gemeinsamen Standards auf Grundlage eines abgestimmten Handbuches durchgefuhrt. Die Festlegung von...

In this classic work of Mississippi history, Nollie W. Hickman relates the felling of great forests of longleaf pine in a southern state where lumbering became a mighty industry.Mississippi Harvest records the arduous transportation of logs to the mills, at first by oxcart and water and later by rail. It details how the naval stores trade flourished through the production of turpentine, pitch, and rosin and through the expansion of exports, which furnished France with spars for sailing vessels. The book tracks the impact of the Civil War on southern lumbering, the tragedy of denuded...

Examining Canada's first Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto from its founding in 1907 to it hundredth year anniversary, One Hundred Rings and Counting is a detailed account one of the country's most successful and influential institutions. While its start was marked by opposition from both the university's uncertainty of the field's importance and from the provincial government's concern about how such an institution would affect the government's control over forests, the faculty has produced a disproportionate number of leaders in world of forestry and...

Ende April und Anfang Mai 2008 kam es in einigen Regionen in Sudwestdeutschland zu Bienenvergiftungen, bei denen nach letzten Erhebungen etwa 11.500 Volker von 700 Imkern teilweise erheblich geschadigt wurden. Sofort nach Bekanntwerden der Vorfalle begann eine intensive Suche nach den Ursachen. Dabei arbeiteten das Ministerium fur Ernahrung und Landlichen Raum in Baden-Wurttemberg (MLR) und die Behorden vor Ort mit der Imkerschaft, der Bienenuntersuchungsstelle im Julius Kuhn-Institut (JKI), dem Bundesamt fur Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL) und der...

Setting the Standard chronicles the emergence and implications of an ambitious experiment in civil-society-led global governance: the Forest Stewardship Council. The FSC was born in 1993 as a grassroots initiative to promote "environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests" through an international system of forest certification.

The recent establishment of an FSC standard for British Columbia was achieved only after difficult and protracted negotiations at the regional, national, and global levels. Drawing on a...

The fate of much of the world's terrestrial biodiversity depends upon our ability to improve the management of forest ecosystems that have already been substantially modified by humans. Monitoring is an essential ingredient in meeting this challenge, allowing us to measure the impact of different human activities on biodiversity and identify more responsible ways of managing the environment. Nevertheless many biodiversity monitoring programs are criticised as being little more than 'tick the box' compliance exercises that waste precious resources and erode the credibility of science in the...

Agroforestry systems have been touted as sustainable production systems that alleviate many of the environmental problems associated with modern production systems. Are they indeed ecologically and economically sustainable? Using case studies from around the globe, this book highlights the potential of agroforestry systems to produce a broad range of commodities. In addition to addressing the biophysical and socioeconomic dimensions of producing traditional food, fodder and fiber crops, this volume examines the potential to integrate biomass crops, botanicals and ornamental plants into...

"Forest Conservation Policy: A Reference Handbook" chronicles the dramatic history, current status, and global influence of U.S. forest policy. Beginning with the foundations of early forest law during the colonial period through the rise of the Conservation Movement in the wake of 19th century massive forest exploitation, this reference also discusses the environmental challenges that have rewritten recent U.S. forest policy and explores future policy directions.

What are the effects of forest destruction on biological diversity? Has the sustainable forest management movement been...