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'Forestry involves using land, labour and capital to producegoods and services from forests, and economics helps in understandinghow we can do this in ways that will best meet the needs ofpeople.' -- from the Preface This important new textbook is designed to fit the needs of studentsin a second-year course in forestry economics. It assumes completion ofan introductory course in economics. The author is Peter H. Pearse, aninternationally recognized natural resource economist. He teachesundergrad...

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

It would have been very easy to expand on all the sections of the first edition but I decided to try to retain the relatively short, introductory nature of the book. Some new material has been added, particularly where it has been possible to update data, and there has been some change of emphasis in places, in order to reflect changing world conditions. The book retains its original purpose, however, of introducing systems thinking as applied to agriculture. I am grateful to Angela Hoxey for he...

The federal role in the management of nonfederal U.S. forests was once relatively simple: to assist in the prevention and control of wildfires. The administrative structure to carry out this role was similarly uncomplicated, with most programs under the aegis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In recent years, however, both the management and administrative landscapes have changed dramatically. Responsibility for the federal role in nonfederal forests has been expanded to include a number of...

Dieser Band enthalt alle neuen Erkenntnisse zu den Kafergruppen der Bande 9 bis 11, die nach deren Veroeffentlichung erschienen sind. Der Forschungsstand ist somit das Jahr 1998.

Human error is involved in more than 90 percent of traffic accidents, and of those accidents, most are associated with visual distractions, or looking-but-failing-to-see errors. Human Factors of Visual and Cognitive Performance in Driving gathers knowledge from a human factors psychology standpoint and provides deeper insight into traffic -user beh

This paper reports on three regional assessments carried out to identify and draw lessons from on-the-ground initiatives in multiple-use forest management in the Amazon Basin, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia. In all three regions, information was collected through interviews with country-based forestry experts, forest managers and technicians. A complementary, Web-based questionnaire further examined the reasons for the successes and failures of multiple-use forest management initiatives.

This book sets out to explain forestry in Queensland: how and why it started, how it developed and what it does now. It might seem that growing trees is one of the simplest things to do, but growing forests is not. The text shows how forests, native and plantation, are designed to produce timber in perpetuity and how techniques have evolved from brush hook to sophisticated computer models. Taylor has also published "Patoral Properties of Australia".