The link between modern lifestyles and increasing levels of chronic heart disease, obesity, stress and poor mental health is a concern across the world. The cost of dealing with these conditions places a large burden on national public health budgets so that policymakers are inc…
"In Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest, Richard A. Rajala explores the roots of the deforestation crisis in the Douglas fir regions of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965. Beginning with a labour process analysis of the technological and managerial i…
En proposant une critique des approches restreintes aux relations entre l'homme et la nature et des approches apolitiques de la géographie, les contributions réunies posent les jalons d'une géographie environnementale, à même d'appréhender l'essence politique de l'environnement.…
Textbook on the economic geography of Bangladesh - covers past economic development, agriculture, forests, energy sources, manufacturing, transport and trade, population, development potential, etc. Bibliography pp. 231 to 239, maps, and statistical tables.
Focusing on the example of the "Lost Pines forest of Texas", this book contextualises the present-day conservation of the Lost Pines within its wealth of historical and geological records. This in turn presents a realistic example for examining evolutionary dynamics models and h…
Continuous cover forestry
by Pukkala, Timo, Gadow, Klaus von
fromManaging Forest Ecosystems
