Social Lives of Forests - Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence

Informationen zum Autor Susanna B. Hecht is professor in the Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environment at the University of California! Los Angeles. Kathleen D. Morrison is the Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College at the University of Chicago. Christine Padoch is the Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany in the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden and the director of the Forests and Livelihoods Programme at the Center for International Forestry Research! Indonesia. Klappentext Forests are in decline! and the threats these outposts of nature face - including deforestation! degradation! and fragmentation - are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question! revealing forests' past! present! and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces. Zusammenfassung Forests are in decline! and the threats these outposts of nature face - including deforestation! degradation! and fragmentation - are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question! revealing forests' past! present! and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces.

Product details

• Authors: Susanna B. (EDT)/ Morrison Hecht, Susanna B. Morrison Hecht
• Assisted by: Susanna B. Hecht (Editor), Hecht Susanna B. (Editor), Kathleen D. Morrison (Editor), Morrison Kathleen D. (Editor), Christine Padoch (Editor), Padoch Christine (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2014
• EAN: 9780226322667
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32266-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Botany & plant sciences, Botany and plant sciences