Publications
Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change
Edited by M Agnoletti, University of Florence, Italy and S Anderson, Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Publication Date: June 2000; Number of Pages: 432 Pages ; Binding: Hardback.
ISBN: 0851994199
Price: £55.00 (US$100.00) (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
The conference was organised by the Italian Academy of Forestry Science and working group on Forest History of the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO). As a whole the papers present detailed analyses of the interrelationships between forest ecosystems and socioeconomic development from thirteen different countries of the world. Main economic and social factors, techniques and local practices, as well as legal and political aspects related to forest changes are discussed, according to the latest achievements in forest history research. The book is a companion volume to Methods and Approaches in Forest History.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
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"
