Vital Forest Graphics

Author : Frédéric Achard
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN 13 : 9789280729030
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Forest Graphics written by Frédéric Achard and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2009 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests are very important for the world's population and large and play critical role in the Earth's life support system, including global carbon and hydrological cycles. This publication provides an overview of the global trends in forest cover and looks specifically at the four largest forest ecosystems and analyses the trends and challenges in their conservation and management. It scrutinizes some of the key drivers behind forest loss, including the increasing demand for commodities and energy. Finally it reviews some of the best practices for sustainable management of forest, including regulatory regimes, participatory management and economic incentives

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789280729023
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Forest Graphics written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ulrich Dangel
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035608636
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Point in Timber Construction written by Ulrich Dangel and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with man-made climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing world population, society needs to rethink the way future buildings are made. Wood is a truly renewable building material that is unlimited in supply if its growth and harvest are sustainably managed. Recent technological advancements in engineering allow the use of timber for the construction of multi-story structures, turning our buildings into carbon sinks rather than becoming sources for CO2-emissions. The book presents convincing arguments for the increased use of wood as an alternative to more fossil fuel intensive building materials, with the goal of demonstrating that an integrated approach can have the potential for positive impact on the environment, local economies, and the building culture at large.

Author : John L. Seitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047065564X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Issues written by John L. Seitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised and updated, the new Fourth Edition of Global Issues: An Introduction offers a unique approach to the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life. Revised and updated to reflect the latest global developments Examines the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life The only book of its kind to use the concept of development to illustrate how different global issues are interrelated Includes a new section on nuclear energy Chapter boxes examine ways that individuals can have a positive impact on the issues examined within the text Key features include a glossary of terms; guides to further reading, media, and Internet resources; and suggestions for discussing and studying the material

Author : United Nations
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN 13 : 9789280729979
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unep Annual Report 2008 written by United Nations and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This summary of UNEP's activities in 2008 provides an overview of the organization's contribution to the fight against climate change in a year in which unequivocal evidence established that global warming is the defining challenge of our era. The report also looks at the broad range of other activities carried out by UNEP as it follows its mandate to provide environmental leadership and promote sustainable development.

Author : Ed Couzens
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786439492
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protecting Forest and Marine Biodiversity written by Ed Couzens and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book contributes to discussions on the best legal practices to use to promote conservation, protection and sustainable use of biological diversity in forest and marine areas. The breadth of issues explored across these two themes is immense, and the book identifies both key differences, and striking commonalities between them.

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Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9230011134
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change in the Classroom: Secondary Teacher Education Course on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251084025
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE STATE OF THE WORLD’s FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication was prepared based on information provided by 86 countries, outcomes from regional and subregional consultations and commissioned thematic studies. It includes: •an overview of definitions and concepts related to Forest Genetic Resources (FGR) and a review of their value; •a description of the main drivers of changes; •the presentation of key emerging technologies; •an analysis of the current status of FGR conservation, use and related developments; •recommendations addressing the challenges and needs. By the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Author : Maria Cristina Area
Publisher : Smithers Pira
ISBN 13 : 1909030872
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wood Fibres for Papermaking written by Maria Cristina Area and published by Smithers Pira. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firs and pines dominated the global picture of the raw materials for paper industry until the 1950s. At that time, the interest in introducing new species, mostly hardwoods, led the researchers intensify efforts to look for the fibrous characteristics and their combinations that could represent the relationship between fibres, pulp and paper.The pulp and paper industry has shown, mainly in the last two decades, a strong North-South displacement. This is to a large extent due to the favourable climate, which promote the development of the trees. Similarly, the paper fibres have gone from being almost exclusively softwoods from natural forests of the Northern-Hemisphere cold regions, such as spruce and fir, to fast growing species of short fibres, such as eucalyptus, and willow and poplar hybrids from plantations.These new species, that begin to dominate the paper panorama, not only differ from classic ones in fibre length, but they present particular characteristics, like large amounts of juvenile wood, different fibrillar angle and so on, because trees are used increasingly at younger age.This leads us to question whether the old paradigms concerning the relationships between fibres characteristics and pulp properties are still valid or should be reviewed and updated, in which case, the basic fibre parameters, their influence in pulping and refining, and their impact on paper quality should be redefined.To establish the state-of-the-art on the topic, this book analyses the publications of the last decade to verify the morphological characteristics of the fibres which are nowadays considered relevant. Relatively recent data were surveyed because of the continuous changes that occur in the species by genetic improvement.

Author : JoAnn Chirico
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506347797
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Problems, Global Solutions written by JoAnn Chirico and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Problems, Global Solutions: Prospects for a Better World approaches social problems from a global perspective with an emphasis on using one’s sociological imagination. Perfect for instructors who involve students in research, this text connects problems borne by individuals to regional, global and historical forces, and stresses the importance of evidence in forming opinions and policies addressing social issues. The book introduces readers to the complexities of the major problems that confront us today such as violent conflict, poverty, climate change, human trafficking and other issues that we encounter in our lives. It book concludes with a chapter on politics and government, underscoring the need for good governance at all levels–and cooperation among many layers of government–to build a better world.