Author: Robert Scott Troup
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The silviculture of Indian trees. 3. Lauraceae to Coniferae
Author: Robert Scott Troup
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The silviculture of Indian trees. 3. Lauraceae to Coniferae
Author: Robert Scott Troup
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Silviculture of Indian Trees
Author: Robert Scott Troup
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Voices from the Forest
Author: Malcolm Cairns
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113652228X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment. Moreover, these external solutions often fail to recognize the extent to which an agricultural system supports a way of life along with a society's food needs. They do not recognize the degree to which the sustainability of a culture is intimately associated with the sustainability and continuity of its agricultural system. Unprecedented in ambition and scope, Voices from the Forest focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers. More than 100 scholars from 19 countries--including agricultural economists, ecologists, and anthropologists--collaborated in the analysis of different fallow management typologies, working in conjunction with hundreds of indigenous farmers of different cultures and a broad range of climates, crops, and soil conditions. By sharing this knowledge--and combining it with new scientific and technical advances--the authors hope to make indigenous practices and experience more widely accessible and better understood, not only by researchers and development practitioners, but by other communities of farmers around the world.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113652228X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and ecology. In contrast, 'scientific' agricultural solutions imposed from outside can be far more damaging to the environment. Moreover, these external solutions often fail to recognize the extent to which an agricultural system supports a way of life along with a society's food needs. They do not recognize the degree to which the sustainability of a culture is intimately associated with the sustainability and continuity of its agricultural system. Unprecedented in ambition and scope, Voices from the Forest focuses on successful agricultural strategies of upland farmers. More than 100 scholars from 19 countries--including agricultural economists, ecologists, and anthropologists--collaborated in the analysis of different fallow management typologies, working in conjunction with hundreds of indigenous farmers of different cultures and a broad range of climates, crops, and soil conditions. By sharing this knowledge--and combining it with new scientific and technical advances--the authors hope to make indigenous practices and experience more widely accessible and better understood, not only by researchers and development practitioners, but by other communities of farmers around the world.
Quarterly Journal of Forestry
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Biological & Agricultural Index
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Miscellaneous Publication
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Bibliography on Tropical Rain Forests and the Global Carbon Cycle: South Asia
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Category : Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Geographic Distribution of the Pines of the World
Author: William Burke Critchfield
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The scope of this publication is limited to mappable information about where pines grow naturally at present. We have not tried to relate present distribution to the fossil record, nor have we tried to indicate the ecological and historical factors controlling species distribution. The elevations at which pines grow are mentioned only in the most general terms; this aspect of distribution is intimately related to latitude, topography, and other features of the local environment.
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The scope of this publication is limited to mappable information about where pines grow naturally at present. We have not tried to relate present distribution to the fossil record, nor have we tried to indicate the ecological and historical factors controlling species distribution. The elevations at which pines grow are mentioned only in the most general terms; this aspect of distribution is intimately related to latitude, topography, and other features of the local environment.