This report addresses the role of forest products in replacing fossil-based and GHG-intensive products. The overarching objective is to provide recommendations to strengthen the contribution of substitution by forest products to sustainable development. To that end, this report firstly provides an...
Author(s)
Verkerk, P. J.; Hassegawa, M.; Brusselen, J. van; Cramm, M.; Chen, X.; Maximo, Y. I.; Koç, M.; Lovrić, M.; Tegegne, Y. T.
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, USA
Citation
Forest products in the global bioeconomy: enabling substitution by wood-based products and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals, 2022, pp 168 pp.
This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from diagrams describing three discrete stages of forest development, and then discusses the...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
The global economics of forestry, 2018, pp 478 pp.
Environmental issues are of fundamental importance, and a broad approach to understanding the relationship between the human economy and the natural world is essential. In a rapidly changing policy and scientific context, this new edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics reflects an...
Author(s)
Harris, J. M.; Roach, B.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Environmental and natural resource economics: a contemporary approach, 2021, Ed.5, pp 716 pp.
This comprehensive text book on subjective forestry which is entitled as Forestry - A Subjective guide for IFS Aspirants to cater the needs of graduates of Forestry and other science and engineering graduates aspiring for the Indian Forest Service. The text is prepared in a form which is easy to...
Author(s)
Parthiban, K. T.; Umesh Kanna, S.; Vennila, S.
Publisher
Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, India
Citation
Forestry - a subjective guide for IFS aspirants , 2017, pp 621 pp.
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options. This book addresses the current gap in the energy and public policy literature for a reference book that compiles the most-recent wood energy assessments, and evaluates current...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Wood energy in developed economies: resource management, economics and policy, 2018, pp 338 pp.
Author(s)
Arano, I. M. de; Muys, B.; Topi, C.; Pettenella, D.; Feliciano, D.; Rigolot, E.; Lefevre, F.; Prokofieva, I.; Labidi, J.; Carnus, J. M.; Secco, L.; Fragiacomo, M.; Follesa, M.; Masiero, M.; Llano-Ponte, R.
Publisher
European Forest Institute, Joensuu, Finland
Citation
A forest-based circular bioeconomy for southern Europe: visions, opportunities and challenges: reflections on the bioeconomy, 2018, pp 117 pp.
Because of the long-standing Canada-United States lumber trade dispute and the current pressure on the world's forests as a renewable energy source, much attention has been directed toward the modelling of international trade in wood products. Two types of trade models are described in this book:...
ISBN
2021 CABI (H ISBN 9781789248234)
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IFTs) are an innovative way to create incentives for local public actors to support conservation. This book contributes to the debate about how to conserve tropical forests by implementing mechanisms for reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). With ...
Author(s)
Irawan, S.; Tacconi, L.
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK
Citation
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers, forest conservation and climate change, 2016, pp 208 pp.
This proceedings contains 55 papers on the economics and management of animal and crop production, plant breeding, pest control and forest management.
Publisher
Accademia dei Georgofili, Firenze, Italy
Citation
I Georgofili. Attidella Accademia dei Georgofili. Anno 2018, 2021, pp 438 pp.
Global Deforestation provides a concise but comprehensive examination of the variety of ways in which deforestation modifies environmental processes, as well as the societal implications of these changes. The book stresses how forest ecosystems may be prone to nearly irreversible degradation. To...
Author(s)
Runyan, C.; D'Odorico, P.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Global deforestation, 2016, pp 300 pp.