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IUFRO The Advocate for Forest Science.
Edited by M Agnoletti, University of Florence, Italy and S Anderson, Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina, USA;
Publication Date: July 2000; Number of Pages: 304 Pages; Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 0851994202
Price: £49.95 (US$90.00) (IUFRO member organizations are entitled to a 25% discount provided that with their order they point out that they are members of IUFRO.)
Available from CABI-Publishing
A companion to Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change which includes over 20 papers from the same conference held in Florence in 1998. The interdisciplinary nature of these studies is emphasized, bringing in the different perspectives of anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, foresters, historians, geneticists and geographers.
Forests, bioenergy and climate change as well as the capacity of healthy and productive forests to mitigate climate change are the main topics of this issue.
This issue includes a report from the conference on “Old Forests, New Management” in Tasmania as well as an invitation to detail a PR and Communication Expert to IUFRO Headquarters for one year.
Two new IUFRO Occasional Papers are presented: No. 21 "Adaptations of Forests to Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Review", and No. 20 "Communicating Forest Science: A Daily Task".
-Occasional Paper 21- The paper combines the physical science review with discussion of economic and social impacts.
-Occasional Paper 20- Proceedings of the Internat. Meeting "Communicating through the media – why and how"