Reforesting the Earth - The Human Drivers of Forest Conservation, Restoration, and Expansion

Thomas K. Rudel examines a wide range of conservation and reforestation efforts to shed new light on the social factors that lead to success.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Forests: A Natural Climate Solution
2. Theory: Societal Transformations, Corporatism, and Forest Gains
3. Forest Losses, the Conservation Movement, and Protected Areas
4. Rural–Urban Migration, Land Abandonment, and the Spread of Secondary Forests
5. Planted Forests: Concessions, Plantations, and the Strength of States
6. Agroforests I: The Spread of Silvopastures
7. Agroforests II: Restoring Agroforests in the Humid Tropics
8. Resurgent Forests: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
9. A Global Forest Transition?
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Thomas K. Rudel is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology and Sociology at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Shocks, States, and Sustainability: The Origins of Radical Environmental Reforms (2019).

Zusammenfassung

Thomas K. Rudel examines a wide range of conservation and reforestation efforts to shed new light on the social factors that lead to success.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thomas Rudel
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.09.2023
• EAN: 9780231210690
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21069-0
• Seiten: 296
• Serie: Society and the Environment
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau; Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei, Ernährung; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Forestry, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Forests, rainforests, Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques, Forests and woodland, Forestry and silviculture, Restoration ecology / rewilding, nature; technology & engineering; forestry