Precious Forests Precious Earth

✍ Scribed by Miodrag Zlatic

• Publisher: InTech
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth. They are distributed across the globe. Forests account for 75% of the gross primary productivity of the Earth's biosphere, and contain 80% of the Earth's plant biomass. Human society and forests influence each other in both positive and negative ways. Forests provide ecosystem services to humans. Forests can also impose costs, affect people's health, and interfere with tourist enjoyment. This publication presents reviews and research results on negative and positive human interference on forests, as well as ecology, management, governance, policy and economic issues. The book consists of four sections with 12 chapters derived from around the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1   Proximate and Underlying Causes of Illegal Timber Trade in Uganda by Nelson Turyahabwe, Willy Kakuru, Martin Asiimwe and Patrick Byakagaba
Chapter 2   Realities on Deforestation in Tanzania — Trends, Drivers, Implications and the Way Forward by Jafari R. Kideghesho
Chapter 3   Dynamics of an Urban Forest in Response to Urban Development and Management Initiatives — Case of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve by Kalyani Chatterjea
Chapter 4   Japanese Forestation Policies During the 20 Years Following World War II by Koji Matsushita
Chapter 5   Decentralisation of Forest Management — Is it a Panacea to Challenges in Forest Governance in Uganda? by Nelson Turyahabwe, Patrick Byakagaba and David Mwesigye Tumusiime
Chapter 6   Creating Modern Community Conservation Organizations and Institutions to Effect Successful Forest Conservation Change by Robert H. Horwich, Sam Shanee, Noga Shanee, Arnab Bose, Mark Fenn and Joydeep Chakraborty
Chapter 7   Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of Different Wood Products by Zdravko Pandur, Marijan Šušnjar, Marko Zorić, Hrvoje Nevečerel and Dubravko Horvat
Chapter 8   Forestry Entrepreneurs — Research on High Performance Business Model by Étienne St-Jean and Luc LeBel
Chapter 9   Species Selection and Nursery Technique Adoption for Seedling Establishment in Bangladesh — Towards Enhancing Plantation Programme by Md. Salim Azad, Biswajit Kumar Sarker and Md. Abdul Matin
Chapter 10   Integrating Wildlife Conservation with Commercial Silviculture — Demography of the Swainson’s Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii), a Migrant Bird of Conservation Concern in Southern Pine Forests, USA by Donata R. Henry, Darren A. Miller and Thomas W. Sherry
Chapter 11   Possibilities and Perspectives of Agroforestry in Chhattisgarh by M.K. Jhariya, S.S. Bargali and Abhishek Raj
Chapter 12   An Approach for Assessing Changes of Forest Land Use, Their Drivers, and Their Impact to Society and Environment by Mats Sandewall and Mersha Gebrehiwot