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The Nature of the Boreal Forest

Space and Culture, 2003
This article addresses the ontological status of nature in environmental politics by taking up the question of sustainable forest management in the Canadian boreal. In particular, it draws from Michel Foucault's notion of governmentality to argue that the historicity of “forest-nature” is indispensable for understanding the politics of sustainable ...
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Natural forest dynamics

2012
For millions of years, natural forest dynamics have created the variety of dead wood hosting the diversity of saproxylic life.
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, Juha Siitonen
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Natural forest regeneration-soil relationships in a fire disturbed urban natural area forest

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021
Abstract Sustainability for urban natural area forests can be achieved with extensive natural regeneration of the native canopy species. A new urban forest management protocol “SAFE” (Soils Aliens Fire Exclosure) has the goal of increasing natural regeneration through: soil treatments; alien species treatments; fire surveillance; and large herbivores
Robert E. Loeb, Hui Mao
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Conversion of exploited natural Dipterocarp forests into semi-natural production forests

1993
According to Indonesian regulations Dipterocarp forests of Kalimantan should be treated by the Indonesian selection system. It assumes, that in a 35-year cycle merchantable trees of > 50 cm diameter can be harvested sustainably. De facto most stands are heavily exploited by successive cuttings and subsequently either left untreated, leading to ...
Jürgen Huss, Maman Sutisna
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Natural Rain Forest Management

1991
Southeast Asia1 includes the tallest tropical rain forests of the world with the greatest timber volume, especially in western Malesia, where Dipterocarpaceae dominate. The number of dipterocarp genera and species decrease with distance from Borneo, but the commercial timber stocking is highest where comparatively few species dominate, as they do in ...
N. Mark Collins   +2 more
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