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It was in late 2002 that the idea of preparing a collection of
multi-authored chapters on different aspects of ag- st forestry as
a compendium for the 1 World Congress of Agroforestry, June 2004,
was tossed around. With the approval of the idea by the Congress
Organizing Committee, serious efforts to make it a reality got
under way in early 2003. The rigorously peer-reviewed and edited
manuscripts were submitted to the publisher in December 2003.
Considering the many differentindividualsinvolved in the task as
authors and manuscriptreviewers, we feel quite pleased that the
task could be accomplished within this timeframe. We are pleased
also about the contents on several counts. First of all, the
tropical-temperate mix of topics is a rare feature of a publication
of this nature. In spite of the scienti?c commonalities between
tropical and temperate practices of agroforestry, the differences
between them are so enormous that it is often impossible to mesh
them together in one publication. Secondly, several of the chapters
are on topics that have not been discussed or described much in
agroforestryliterature. A third feature is that some of the
authors, though well known in their own disciplinary areas, are
somewhat new to agroforestry; the perceptions and outlooks of these
scholars who are relatively unin?uenced by the past happenings in
agroforestry gives a whole new dimension to agroforestry and
broadensthescopeofthesubject. Finally,
ratherthanjustreviewingandsummarizingpastwork, mostchapterstake the
extra effort in attempting to outline the next steps
It was in late 2002 that the idea of preparing a collection of
multi-authored chapters on different aspects of ag- st forestry as
a compendium for the 1 World Congress of Agroforestry, June 2004,
was tossed around. With the approval of the idea by the Congress
Organizing Committee, serious efforts to make it a reality got
under way in early 2003. The rigorously peer-reviewed and edited
manuscripts were submitted to the publisher in December 2003.
Considering the many differentindividualsinvolved in the task as
authors and manuscriptreviewers, we feel quite pleased that the
task could be accomplished within this timeframe. We are pleased
also about the contents on several counts. First of all, the
tropical-temperate mix of topics is a rare feature of a publication
of this nature. In spite of the scienti?c commonalities between
tropical and temperate practices of agroforestry, the differences
between them are so enormous that it is often impossible to mesh
them together in one publication. Secondly, several of the chapters
are on topics that have not been discussed or described much in
agroforestryliterature. A third feature is that some of the
authors, though well known in their own disciplinary areas, are
somewhat new to agroforestry; the perceptions and outlooks of these
scholars who are relatively unin?uenced by the past happenings in
agroforestry gives a whole new dimension to agroforestry and
broadensthescopeofthesubject. Finally,
ratherthanjustreviewingandsummarizingpastwork, mostchapterstake the
extra effort in attempting to outline the next steps
Gerland is an apprentice for the wizard Nodra. When tragedy
strikes, Gerland is forced to deal with unforeseen circumstances
and Nodra's mystical book of spells. Book in hand, he encounters
all sorts of colorful characters, both light and dark, on his
journey to rid the land of evil.
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