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The New Forester (Paperback)
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The New Forester (Paperback)
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List price R557
Loot Price R522
Discovery Miles 5 220
You Save R35 (6%)
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In general, subsistence economies in developing countries are
biomass economies. Housing itself, energy, furniture and utensils
are still biomass products. The yield of trees and shrubs provides
thatch, fodder and a host of other products which serve each family
household. Woody biomass yields food for people and
animals.;Deforestation is an erosion of local entitlement to
subsistence resources as well as being an environmental problem
that destroys local, national and global common property resources.
The challenge for foresters and other rural development
professionals is to build new landscapes which provide a range of
biomass products to local users. This text will contribute to that
task by helping professionals see new ooportunities by working
with, not against, local people.;Foresters have traditionally
increased wood supplies with large scale approaches that favoured
monoculture plantations and the policing of forests and woodlands
to address wood removal. Their rationale has been to plant as many
trees as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, and all too often,
decisions to spend large sums of money planting trees have been
taken without considering other options. Fortunately a re-thinking
of the biomass problem is under way, and this new thinking and its
options are what this book describes.;This text is, of course,
addressed to foresters, but its practical approach is worth the
attention of all rural development practitioners, as well as
individuals within a range of professional backgrounds from
engineering to sociology.
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