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Les forêts du bassin du Congo : état des forêts 2010
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ISSN: 10185593 ISBN: 9789279227172 9279227173 Year: 2012 Volume: 25161 Publisher: Luxembourg : Office des Publications de l'Union européenne,

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Deforesting the earth : from prehistory to global crisis: an abridgment.
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ISBN: 0226899470 9780226899473 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

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Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present should read this closely argued and sweeping survey. This is rich, timely, and sobering historical fare written in a measured, non-sensationalist style by a master of his craft. One only hopes (almost certainly vainly) that today's policymakers take its lessons to heart. Brian Fagan, 'Los Angeles'' Times' Published in 2002, 'Deforesting the Earth 'was a landmark study of the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an abridgment, this edition retains the breadth of the original while rendering its arguments accessible to a general readership. Deforestation& the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests for fuel, shelter, and agriculture& is among the most important ways humans have transformed the environment. Surveying ten thousand years to trace human-induced deforestation's effect on economies, societies, and landscapes around the world, 'Deforesting the Earth 'is the preeminent history of this process and its consequences. Beginning with the return of the forests after the ice age to Europe, North America, and the tropics, Michael Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic age through the classical world and the medieval period. He then focuses on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, from the 1500s to the early 1900s, in such places as the New World, India, and Latin America, and considers indigenous clearing in India, China, and Japan. Finally, he covers the current alarming escalation of deforestation, with our ever-increasing human population placing a potentially unsupportable burden on the world's forests.


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Unasylva.
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ISSN: 02511053 15643700 Publisher: Rome FAO.

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Revue internationale des forêts et des industries forestières 1 vol. (4 issues) / year


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Regards croisés sur la foresterie communautaire : l'expérience camerounnaise
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ISBN: 9782870161197 2870161190 Year: 2012 Publisher: Gembloux Presses agronomiques de Gembloux

Planting for the future : forestry for human needs
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ISBN: 0916468259 9780916468255 Year: 1979 Volume: 26 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): Worldwatch institute

Les milieux forestiers
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ISBN: 2130376711 9782130376712 Year: 1983 Volume: 33 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,


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La forêt et les communautés rurales
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ISBN: 2859440496 9782859440497 Year: 1982 Volume: 3 Publisher: Paris Sorbonne

Studien zur Waldwirtschaftsgeographie : das Ertragspotential der Wälder der Erde : Wald- und Forstwirtschaft in Afrika
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ISBN: 3515020446 9783515020442 Year: 1974 Volume: 39 Publisher: Wiesbaden Franz Steiner

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