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Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring
forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge
and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University's
Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable
improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a
key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the
restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical
forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical
forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies
of their successful application, and research methods to refine
such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and
socio-economic conditions.
Following the destruction of 95% of meadows during the twentieth
century, there is an urgent need to understand what little
unspoiled habitat remains in order to plan the management and
restoration of existing sites, as well as re-creating future
grassland habitats. This book is a much-needed guide to grassland
restoration and management. Providing a thorough overview of recent
research on grassland restoration and its implications for
practical grassland restoration and management, it introduces
grassland communities and the wildlife they support, including
examples of species of conservation concern, and considers the
management of semi-natural grassland habitats with particular
emphasis on drier grassland habitats. Chapters cover: - Grassland
character and communities - Introduction to grassland wildlife -
Managing semi-natural grassland - Grassland restoration - threats
and challenges - Opportunities in grassland restoration - Plant
material for grassland restoration - Defining success in grassland
restoration. A variety of management techniques are examined,
including soil amendment, cultivation, harvesting and maintenance
in creating suitable conditions for the successful restoration of
species-rich grasslands. It is essential reading for
conservationists, site owners or managers, practitioners,
conservation organizations and students of ecological restoration
with an interest in the creation of new grassland habitats, the
restoration of semi-natural grassland, as well as the continuing
management of semi-natural (unimproved) grassland communities.
Tropical and subtropical forests cover a relatively small portion
of the earth's surface, but they're home to over half of the animal
and plant species on earth. Since these forests are rapidly
disappearing, there is no room for error in restoration activities
and decisions. "Restoring Tropical Forests" is a practical guide
based on proven techniques that will enable readers to make the
right decisions toward saving these valuable lands.
The book is based on the innovative techniques developed at Chiang
Mai University's Forest Restoration Research Unit, Thailand. It
takes a threepart approach, first looking at effective general
concepts of tropical forest dynamics and regeneration, then at
specific proven restoration techniques, and finally at how to use
research methods to refine and adapt the techniques to local
ecological and socioeconomic conditions. In addition, illustrations
and case studies of successful applications help to make this a
global, user-friendly guide. Whether for developing new techniques
or improving old ones, "Restoring Tropical Forests" is a valuable
tool for effective, ecologically sound change.
Following the destruction of 95% of meadows during the twentieth
century, there is an urgent need to understand what little
unspoiled habitat remains in order to plan the management and
restoration of existing sites, as well as re-creating future
grassland habitats. This book is a much-needed guide to grassland
restoration and management. Providing a thorough overview of recent
research on grassland restoration and its implications for
practical grassland restoration and management, it introduces
grassland communities and the wildlife they support, including
examples of species of conservation concern, and considers the
management of semi-natural grassland habitats with particular
emphasis on drier grassland habitats. Chapters cover: - Grassland
character and communities - Introduction to grassland wildlife -
Managing semi-natural grassland - Grassland restoration - threats
and challenges - Opportunities in grassland restoration - Plant
material for grassland restoration - Defining success in grassland
restoration. A variety of management techniques are examined,
including soil amendment, cultivation, harvesting and maintenance
in creating suitable conditions for the successful restoration of
species-rich grasslands. It is essential reading for
conservationists, site owners or managers, practitioners,
conservation organizations and students of ecological restoration
with an interest in the creation of new grassland habitats, the
restoration of semi-natural grassland, as well as the continuing
management of semi-natural (unimproved) grassland communities.
Restoring Tropical Forests is a user-friendly guide to restoring
forests throughout the tropics. Based on the concepts, knowledge
and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University's
Forest Restoration Research Unit, this book will enable
improvements in existing forest restoration projects and provide a
key resource for new ones. The book presents three aspects of the
restoration of tropical forest ecosystems: the concepts of tropical
forest dynamics and regeneration that are relevant to tropical
forest restoration, proven restoration techniques and case studies
of their successful application, and research methods to refine
such techniques and adapt them to local ecological and
socio-economic conditions.
The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film examines
the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory.
Rhetorical approaches to film studies have been widely practiced,
but rarely discussed until now. Taking on such issues as Hollywood
blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics,
editor David Blakesley presents fifteen critical essays that
examine rhetoric's role in such popular films as ""The Fifth
Element"", ""The Last Temptation of Christ"", ""The Usual
Suspects"", ""Deliverance"", ""The English Patient"", ""Pulp
Fiction"", ""The Music Man"", ""Copycat"", ""Hoop Dreams"", and ""A
Time to Kill"". Aided by sixteen illustrations, these insightful
essays consider films rhetorically, as ways of seeing and not
seeing, as acts that dramatize how people use language and images
to tell stories and foster identification. Contributors include
David Blakesley, Alan Nadel, Ann Chisholm, Martin J. Medhurst,
Byron Hawk, Ekaterina V. Haskins, James Roberts, Thomas W. Benson,
Philip L. Simpson, Davis W. Houck, Caroline J. S. Picart,
Friedemann Weidauer, Bruce Krajewski, Harriet Malinowitz, Granetta
L. Richardson, and Kelly Ritter.
"Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction" is an
innovative approach to the postmodern dilemma in rhetoric and
composition that" "offers a positive and postmodern pedagogy that
redefines and revalues writing and the teaching of writing through
reconstructive, postmodern thought. The result is a fresh
understanding of both the field of composition and writing
instruction.
Drawing on the rich potential of "beginning" as a philosophical
concept, Michael Carter asks the simple question: Where does
writing begin? His findings take readers first to a new view of
what it means to begin, and then to a new understanding of writing
and teaching writing based on the redefined beginning. Challenging
conventional notions that posit "beginning" as a chronological and
temporal concept, he instead advocates an ontological and
philosophical approach, in which "beginning" embodies both
deconstruction and reconstruction--and the very possibility of
newness.
Adding to a growing body of rhetorical scholarship in postmodern
reconstruction, "Where Writing Begins "illustrates that writing
must be understood within the framework of deconstruction and
reconstruction. Writing, then, may be newly defined and valued as
beginning. Weaving together conceptual, structural, and
methodological patterns, Carter's study is also a journey through
the history of philosophy and rhetoric that will leave readers
feeling refreshed and teachers eager to return to their classes.
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