Forestry Books

Out on the Colorado plains, you can still take old U.S. Highway 40 east of Denver. The lonely two-lane road leaves the Front Range and the famous Colorado high country far behind. Before you hit the Kansas line, you'll encounter vast grass-covered prairies, occasional cattle, patches of irrigated land, and a procession of little wind-blown towns ...

By Taylor & Francis Group

This book covers topics on the basic models, assessments, and techniques to calculate evapotranspiration (ET) for practical applications in agriculture, forestry, and urban science. This simple and thorough guide provides the information and techniques necessary to develop, manage, interpret, and apply evapotranspiration ET data to practical ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Available as eBook only The contamination of recreational waters by waterborne pathogens poses a health threat to beach users. Recently, the importance of beach sand to the biological quality of beach water has been realized and verified. This study examined how urban rainfall runoff from a tributary stream affects the concentrations of fecal ...

By IWA Publishing

Test methods feature how to perform chemical analysis of wood and how to evaluate mechanical and physical properties. Others detail structural grading, wood paving blocks, and modified wood. Under the heading of wood preservatives, this volume covers for chemically analyzing preservatives and evaluating their physical ...

By ASTM International

Test methods feature how to perform chemical analysis of wood and how to evaluate mechanical and physical properties. Others detail structural grading, wood paving blocks, and modified wood. Under the heading of wood preservatives, this volume covers for chemically analyzing preservatives and evaluating their physical ...

By ASTM International

In recent years governments in the South have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests to communities living in and around them . This book assesses the experience of what appears to be a new international trend that has substantially increased the share of the world's forests under community administration. Based on research in over ...

By Earthprint Ltd

This report reviews the status of SMFEs in Ghana. It provides information on the various issues confronting the sub-sector and identifies mechanisms for harnessing the potential of SMFEs to effectively contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable forest management in ...

By Earthprint Ltd

This full-colour publication highlights 25 promising African plants, a selection from 10 years PROTA programme.    They include vegetables (e.g. spider plant, roselle, African eggplant), cereals and pulses (e.g. African rice, tef, bambara groundnut), dyes and tannins (e.g. dye-sorghum, n’galama, turmeric), vegetable oils (e.g. Allanblackia, shea ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Test methods feature how to perform chemical analysis of wood and how to evaluate mechanical and physical properties. Others detail structural grading, wood paving blocks, and modified wood. Under the heading of wood preservatives, this volume covers for chemically analyzing preservatives and evaluating their physical ...

By ASTM International

Test methods feature how to perform chemical analysis of wood and how to evaluate mechanical and physical properties. Others detail structural grading, wood paving blocks, and modified wood. Under the heading of wood preservatives, this volume covers for chemically analyzing preservatives and evaluating their physical ...

By ASTM International

These 3 volumes feature 429 plastics-related standards, including test methods that establish standard procedures for assessing physical, mechanical, optical, permanence, and thermal properties.These volumes include specifications that fix standard property requirements for thermoplastic, thermosetting, and reinforced thermosetting materials. ...

By ASTM International

These 3 volumes feature 429 plastics-related standards, including test methods that establish standard procedures for assessing physical, mechanical, optical, permanence, and thermal properties.These volumes include specifications that fix standard property requirements for thermoplastic, thermosetting, and reinforced thermosetting materials. ...

By ASTM International

These 3 volumes feature 429 plastics-related standards, including test methods that establish standard procedures for assessing physical, mechanical, optical, permanence, and thermal properties.These volumes include specifications that fix standard property requirements for thermoplastic, thermosetting, and reinforced thermosetting materials. ...

By ASTM International

These 3 volumes feature 429 plastics-related standards, including test methods that establish standard procedures for assessing physical, mechanical, optical, permanence, and thermal properties.These volumes include specifications that fix standard property requirements for thermoplastic, thermosetting, and reinforced thermosetting materials. ...

By ASTM International

These 3 volumes feature 429 plastics-related standards, including test methods that establish standard procedures for assessing physical, mechanical, optical, permanence, and thermal properties.These volumes include specifications that fix standard property requirements for thermoplastic, thermosetting, and reinforced thermosetting materials. ...

By ASTM International

These 3 volumes feature 429 plastics-related standards, including test methods that establish standard procedures for assessing physical, mechanical, optical, permanence, and thermal properties.These volumes include specifications that fix standard property requirements for thermoplastic, thermosetting, and reinforced thermosetting materials. ...

By ASTM International

Get the inside track from some of the world's key sector initiatives.This report examines leading global initiatives across a range of industries and tells you what works (and pays!), why some initiatives are doomed to fail and why and how you should get involved.This report will: Update you on the progress of the various sector initiatives, ...

By Ethical Corporation - part of the FC Business Intelligence Ltd group

Approximately 17 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by land-use change and, in particular, the destruction of tropical forests. Reducing land-use change and forest degradation has been shown as a cost-effective way of slowing carbon emissions compared to other mitigation strategies such as curbing emissions from power stations. ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Forest fires impact upon livelihoods, ecosystems and landscapes. The Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines address the cultural, social, environmental and economic dimensions of fire management at all levels. The present study identifies the elements of a coherent national legal framework on forest fires, identifying emerging trends and singling ...

By Earthprint Ltd

This publication identifies and analyzes critical issues in the formulation and implementation of national and sub-national legal frameworks for REDD activities. It is based on substantive findings from four national case studies (Brazil, Cameroon, Guyana and Papua New Guinea) chosen for their varying geographies, forest cover and deforestation ...

By Earthprint Ltd