Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Forest Health and Clearcutting
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest
Author: Richard A. Rajala
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842237
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of B.C., Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965. Part I focuses on the mode of production, analyzing the technological and managerial structures of worker and resource exploitation from the perspective of current trends in labour process research. Rajala argues that operators sought to neutralize the variable forest environment by emulating the factory model of work organization. The introduction of steam-powered overhead logging methods provided industry with a rudimentary factory regime by 1930, accompanied by productivity gains and diminished workplace autonomy for loggers. After a Depression-inspired turn to selective logging with caterpillar tractors timber capital continued its refinement of clearcutting technologies in the post-war period, achieving complete mechanization of yarding with the automatic grapple. Driviing this process of innovation was a concept of industrial efficiency that responded to changing environmental conditions, product and labour markets, but sought to advance operators' class interests by routinizing production. The managerial component of the factory regime took shape in accordance with the principles of the early 20th century scientific management movement. Requiring expertise in the organization of an expanded, technologically sophisticated exploitation process, operators presided over the establishment of logging engineering programs in the region's universities. Graduates introduced rational planning procedures to coastal logging, contributing to a rate of deforestation that generated a corporate call for technical forestry expertise after 1930. Industrial foresters then emerged from the universities to provide firms with data needed for long-range investment decisions in land acquisition and management. Part II constitutes an environmental and political history of clearcutting. This reconstructs the process of scientific research concenring the factory regime's impact on the ecology of the Douglas fir forest, assessing how knowledge was utitized in the regulation of cutting practices. Analysis of business-government relations in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon suggests that the reliance of those client states on revenues generated by timber capital enouraged a pattern of regulation that served corporate rather than social and ecological ends.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842237
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of B.C., Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965. Part I focuses on the mode of production, analyzing the technological and managerial structures of worker and resource exploitation from the perspective of current trends in labour process research. Rajala argues that operators sought to neutralize the variable forest environment by emulating the factory model of work organization. The introduction of steam-powered overhead logging methods provided industry with a rudimentary factory regime by 1930, accompanied by productivity gains and diminished workplace autonomy for loggers. After a Depression-inspired turn to selective logging with caterpillar tractors timber capital continued its refinement of clearcutting technologies in the post-war period, achieving complete mechanization of yarding with the automatic grapple. Driviing this process of innovation was a concept of industrial efficiency that responded to changing environmental conditions, product and labour markets, but sought to advance operators' class interests by routinizing production. The managerial component of the factory regime took shape in accordance with the principles of the early 20th century scientific management movement. Requiring expertise in the organization of an expanded, technologically sophisticated exploitation process, operators presided over the establishment of logging engineering programs in the region's universities. Graduates introduced rational planning procedures to coastal logging, contributing to a rate of deforestation that generated a corporate call for technical forestry expertise after 1930. Industrial foresters then emerged from the universities to provide firms with data needed for long-range investment decisions in land acquisition and management. Part II constitutes an environmental and political history of clearcutting. This reconstructs the process of scientific research concenring the factory regime's impact on the ecology of the Douglas fir forest, assessing how knowledge was utitized in the regulation of cutting practices. Analysis of business-government relations in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon suggests that the reliance of those client states on revenues generated by timber capital enouraged a pattern of regulation that served corporate rather than social and ecological ends.
Forests and Human Health
Author: Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9792446486
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
This study has two central concerns: the state of human health in forests, and the causal links between forests and human health. Within this framework, we consider four issues related to tropical forests and human health. First, we discuss forest foods, emphasizing the forest as a food-producing habitat, human dependence on forest foods, the nutritional contributions of such foods, and nutrition-related problems that affect forest peoples. Our second topic is disease and other health problems. In addition to the major problems—HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola and mercury poisoning—we address some 20 other tropical diseases and health problems related to forests. The third topic is medicinal products. We review the biophysical properties of medicinal species and consider related indigenous knowledge, human uses of medicinal forest products, the serious threats to forest sustainability, and the roles of traditional healers, with a discussion of the benefits of forest medicines and conflicts over their distribution. Our fourth and final topic is the cultural interpretations of human health found among forest peoples, including holistic world views that impinge on health and indigenous knowledge. The Occasional Paper concludes with some observations about the current state of our knowledge, its utility and shortcomings, and our suggestions for future research.
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9792446486
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
This study has two central concerns: the state of human health in forests, and the causal links between forests and human health. Within this framework, we consider four issues related to tropical forests and human health. First, we discuss forest foods, emphasizing the forest as a food-producing habitat, human dependence on forest foods, the nutritional contributions of such foods, and nutrition-related problems that affect forest peoples. Our second topic is disease and other health problems. In addition to the major problems—HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola and mercury poisoning—we address some 20 other tropical diseases and health problems related to forests. The third topic is medicinal products. We review the biophysical properties of medicinal species and consider related indigenous knowledge, human uses of medicinal forest products, the serious threats to forest sustainability, and the roles of traditional healers, with a discussion of the benefits of forest medicines and conflicts over their distribution. Our fourth and final topic is the cultural interpretations of human health found among forest peoples, including holistic world views that impinge on health and indigenous knowledge. The Occasional Paper concludes with some observations about the current state of our knowledge, its utility and shortcomings, and our suggestions for future research.
Forest Biodiversity and Clearcutting Prohibition Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Forest Health and Clearcutting
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Salvage Timber and Forest Health
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Salvage Timber and Forest Health
Publisher:
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Category : Forest health
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest health
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Salvage Timber and Forest Health
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Salvage Timber and Forest Health
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest health
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest health
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Forests for the Future
Author:
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Category : Clearcutting
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clearcutting
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Whole-tree Clearcutting in New England
Author:
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Category : Clearcutting
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clearcutting
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Case Against Clearcutting Sterile Forest
Author: Edward C. Fritz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clearcutting
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clearcutting
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description