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, 2008 Natural disasters such as floods, landslides, snow avalanches and tsunamis cause loss of lives and goods every year in the world. Is it inevitable that natural catastrophic events become "natural disasters"? What role can forests play in reducing people's vulnerability to natural catastrophic events and how can forest conservation programs and policies
Celik, Hüseyin Emrullah
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The Nature of the Boreal Forest
Space and Culture, 2003This 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 Benefits and Economic Analysis of Natural Forest Conversion in Cambodia
Working Paper, 2006This study investigates the economic and environmental implications of converting Cambodia’s natural forests into alternative land uses. Using a Total Economic Value (TEV) framework and a value flow model, the research assesses direct and indirect benefits of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and deciduous forests, including non-timber forest products (NTFPs),
Kasper K. Hansen, Neth Top
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2013
In studies of forest and nature governance the dominant approaches are rational choice and neo-institutionalism. This book takes another perspective. Departing from ‘practice theory’, and building upon scholars like Giddens, Bourdieu, Reckwitz, Schatzki and Callon, it seeks to move beyond established understandings of institutions, actors, and ...
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In studies of forest and nature governance the dominant approaches are rational choice and neo-institutionalism. This book takes another perspective. Departing from ‘practice theory’, and building upon scholars like Giddens, Bourdieu, Reckwitz, Schatzki and Callon, it seeks to move beyond established understandings of institutions, actors, and ...
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Conversion of exploited natural Dipterocarp forests into semi-natural production forests
1993According 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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BioScience, 1987
urrently, much public concern and research effort focuses on forest dieback in industrial countries. Factors associated with air pollution, such as acid rain, nitrous oxide, changes in the ozone level, and heavy metal deposition are often considered responsible for tree mortality on both sides of the Atlantic.
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urrently, much public concern and research effort focuses on forest dieback in industrial countries. Factors associated with air pollution, such as acid rain, nitrous oxide, changes in the ozone level, and heavy metal deposition are often considered responsible for tree mortality on both sides of the Atlantic.
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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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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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2015
A true “natural” forest can be defined as an idealized virgin forest condition that is uninfluenced by large-scale, systematic human activity; yet human activities have been so widespread and taken place over such a long period of time that there is probably little, if any, strictly natural forest remaining on planet Earth.
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A true “natural” forest can be defined as an idealized virgin forest condition that is uninfluenced by large-scale, systematic human activity; yet human activities have been so widespread and taken place over such a long period of time that there is probably little, if any, strictly natural forest remaining on planet Earth.
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