Forests, Rainforests

Over the last century, the scale of Canadas domestic disaster response system has grown significantly due to the countrys increased capacity for em...

The inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment. By contrast, cities are sites of action and ...

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from...

Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty examines the beginning of Canadas aerial war against forest insects and how a tiny handful of officials came t...

Disconnect from the distractions of daily life and reconnect with nature with Wild Walking, an enticing and comprehensive introduction to forest ba...

Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a major role in regulating the global climate. They sup...

Innate Terrain addresses the varied perceptions of Canadas natural terrain, framing the discussion in the context of landscapes designed by Canadia...

Saving the World tells the forgotten history of climatic botany, the idea that forests are essential for creating and recycling rain. Long before t...

The nations of the Global North are responding to the climate change emergency with emissions trading schemes and alternative sources of energy. Me...

Half of all the animal and plant species on Earth live in tropical rainforests. Learn all about life in the trees, in the rivers and on the ground....

New, groundbreaking science on forests for forest owners and managers.North American landscapes have been shaped by humans for millennia through fi...

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representat...

2020 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award During the nineteenth century, the development and codification of forest science in France were closely linked ...

Because of the long-standing Canada-U.S. lumber trade dispute and the current pressure on the world's forests as a renewable energy source, much at...

Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an ...

Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world. With a lifetime ...