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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: World Forests, Society and Environment
  name:
    name part: Palo, Matti.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Uusivuori, Jussi.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (430 pages)
  abstract: This book addresses current global and regional issues concerning the world's forests, societies and the environment from an independent and non-governmental point of view. A main message is that cooperation on a global scale is not only commendable, but essential if solutions to the problems facing the world's forests are to be found. To achieve this, modern science needs to find a clearer picture of relationships between forests, human activity and the environment and of the consequences of environmental change for the ability of societies to survive. Part I, Editorial Perspectives, is analyzing the ongoing globalization processes of forests, societies and the environment. Part II, Society and Environment, reviews worldwide trends with significance for the future of forests and forestry. While the trends are influenced by forest sector issues, that sector is influenced to a much larger extent by external factors - such as demography, urbanization, or technological development. Part III, Importance of Forests, looks at the value of the goods and services of forests; tangible and intangible; market and non-market; and concludes that failure to recognize their full value is one of the crucial impediments to sustainable development. In Part IV, Global Forum, scientists take up global forestry themes - deforestation, trade and the environment, climate change, biodiversity - with the aim of stimulating wider discussion. Part V, Regional Forum, looks at major themes of particular relevance to Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America and Europe, such as farm and agroforestry, corruption and concessions, urban forestry and environmental conflicts. Part VI introduces the special theme - forest sectors in transition economies. Teams of scientists from Russia and China focus on the implications of the transition from plan to market economy, illuminating both the very different nature of the forest sector in the two countries and the different transition paths that t…
  note: edited by Matti Palo, Jussi Uusivuori.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Forests and forestry
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Forests and forestry
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Forest management
  subject:
    topic: Forest management
  subject:
    topic: Forests and forestry
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Forests and forestry
    topic: Social aspects
  classification: SD387.S55
  classification: 333.75/15
  related item:
    title info:
      title: World forests ; 1
  identifier: 9789401147460 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401147469 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: I9W
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422222522.0
    record identifier: in00003545576
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng