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“dean lueck”

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  • Wildfire Policy

    Law and Economics Perspectives

    Edited by Dean Lueck, Karen M. Bradshaw ...
    During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflects the first-ever forum for law and economics scholars to apply the analysis and methodologies of their field to the subject of wildfire. The only modern legal work on wildfire, the book ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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  • The Global Economics of Forestry

    by William F. Hyde ...
    This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from diagrams describing three discrete stages of forest development, and then discusses the management and policy implications associated with each, supporting its observations with examples and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Forest Resource Economics

    Edited by Shashi Kant, Janaki Alavalapati ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil erosion and controlling water supplies, as well as providing non-timber forest products and supporting the ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes

    Dehesas of Spain and Ranchlands of California

    Edited by Pablo Campos, Lynn Huntsinger, Jose Luis Oviedo, Paul F Starrs, Mario Diaz, Richard B Standiford, Gregorio Montero ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The oak tree was a boon companion as humans expanded their presence across much of the globe. While oak woodlands (Quercus spp.) come today in stunningly diverse forms, the stately dehesas of Spain and the dramatic oak-dominated ranchlands of California are working landscapes where cultivation and manipulation for a couple of millennia have shaped Mediterranean-type ecosystems into a profoundly ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

  • Globalisation and Change in Forest Ownership and Forest Use

    Natural Resource Management in Transition

    Edited by E. Carina H. Keskitalo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book describes the changing landscape of European forest ownership and explores the impact a new, often urban, generation of forest owners may have on the future of one of our most basic resources – forests. Forests have not played a major role in rural studies thus far, however they constitute an important part of many rural areas. Drawing on Swedish cases and comparison cases from various ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Paradigm of Forests and the Survival of the Fittest

    Edited by Sergio A. Molina-Murillo, Carlos Rojas Alvarado ...
    This book demonstrates the social, historical, and environmental framework within which humans have developed a relationship with the forest and its resources. Starting from the biological basis that permits the existence of forests to the use of forest resources in a modern human context, this book summarizes the interaction between humans and forest ecosystems. Designed for readers from a broad ... Read more

    $247.99 CAD

  • Vestal Fire

    An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World

    by Stephen J. Pyne ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Cycle of Fire
    Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a remarkable contribution--breathtaking in the scope of its research and exhilarating to read.Pyne takes the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Non-Timber Forest Products in the Global Context

    Edited by Sheona Shackleton, Charlie Shackleton, Patricia Shanley ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and marketing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). There has been considerable research and policy effort surrounding NTFPs over the last two and half decades. The book explores the evolution of sentiments regarding the potential of NTFPs ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Forest Inventory-based Projection Systems for Wood and Biomass Availability

    Edited by Susana Barreiro, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Ronald E. McRoberts, Gerald Kändler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides detailed descriptions of the forest biomass projection systems used in 22 countries in Europe and North America, as well as four European-wide systems. Separate chapters focus on the concepts of estimation of availability of woody biomass, compare and classify the different projection systems, and discuss the challenges and opportunities for the further development of these ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Economics of Wildfire Management

    The Development and Application of Suppression Expenditure Models

    by Michael S. Hand, Krista M. Gebert, Jingjing Liang, David E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Mo Zhou ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    In this age of climatic and financial uncertainty, it becomes increasingly important to balance the cost, benefits and risk of wildfire management. In the United States, increased wildland fire activity over the last 15 years has resulted in drastic damage and loss of life. An associated rapid increase in fire management costs has consumed higher portions of budgets of public entities involved in ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Continuous Cover Forestry

    Edited by Timo Pukkala, Klaus Gadow ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Although the majority of the world’s forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, selectively managed as Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), are ... Read more

    $306.99 CAD