Author: Thomas Ford Chipp
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Author: Thomas Ford 1886-1931 Chipp
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019930564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This practical handbook is an indispensable guide for anyone working in the forests of West Africa. From basic techniques of forest measurement and mapping to advanced strategies for forest protection and management, the book provides a wealth of practical information drawn from the author's extensive experience in the field. The book also includes numerous illustrations and tables to aid in the identification of plant and animal species, making it an essential resource for foresters, ecologists, and anyone interested in the natural resources of West Africa. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Frank Uekötter
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822989808
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises—climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes—means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uekötter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we’ve forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to industry to infrastructure, must be considered collectively if we are to stay afloat in what Uekötter describes as a vortex: a powerful metaphor for the flow of history, capturing the momentum and the many crosscurrents that swept people and environments along. His book invites us to look at environmental challenges from multiple perspectives, including all the twists and turns that have helped to create the mess we find ourselves in. Uekötter has written a world history for an age where things are falling apart: where we know what lies ahead and are equipped with the right tools—technological and otherwise—and plenty of experience to deal with environmental challenges, but somehow fail to get our affairs in order.

Author: Johann Georg Goldammer
Publisher: African Minds
ISBN: 191983365X
Category : Fire ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Africa is a fire continent. Since the early evolution of humanity, fire has been harnessed as a land-use tool. Many ecosystems of Sub-Sahara Africa that have been shaped by fire over millennia provide a high carrying capacity for human populations.

Author: Linnean Society of London
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Includes list of additions to the library.

Author: Linnean Society of London
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: F. T. Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107464196
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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Originally published in 1925, this book contains the proceedings of the Imperial Botanical Conference, held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in July 1924. The conference decided on a number of technical directions to assist botanists in all corners of the British Empire in their study of native flora and diseases of plants. The papers published include several by celebrated botanists of the day, including Dr Redcliffe Salaman and Professor J. Percival. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of botany.

Author: Frederick Tom Brooks
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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