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Book Proceedings of  the  Conference on Southern Industrial Forest Management

Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference on Southern Industrial Forest Management written by Duke University. School of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of Third Conference on Southern Industrial Forest Management

Download or read book Proceedings of Third Conference on Southern Industrial Forest Management written by Duke University School of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of Second Conference on Southern Industrial Forest Management

Download or read book Proceedings of Second Conference on Southern Industrial Forest Management written by Duke University School of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Second Wave

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  • Author : Philip Scranton
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780820322186
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Second Wave written by Philip Scranton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South. From perspectives grounded in geography, law, history, sociology, and economics, several contributors look at southern industrial sectors old and new: aircraft and defense, cotton textiles, timber and pulp, carpeting, oil refining and petrochemicals, and automobiles. One essay challenges the perception that southern industrial growth was spurred by a disproportionate share of federal investment during and after the war. In covering the variety of technological, managerial, and spatial transitions brought about by the South's "second wave" of industrialization, the case studies also identify a set of themes crucial to understanding regional dynamics: investment and development; workforce training; planning, cost-containment, and environmental concerns; equal employment opportunities; rural-to-urban shifts and the decay of local economies entrepreneurism; and coordination of supply, service, and manufacturing processes. From boardroom to factory floor, the variety of perspectives in The Second Wave will significantly widen our understanding of the dramatic reshaping of the region in the decades after 1940.

Book Industrializing Organisms

Download or read book Industrializing Organisms written by Susan Schrepfer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet our needs? Industrializing Organisms brings us to the threshold of the new field of evolutionary history--from the mobilization of war horses in the 19th century to today's engineered plants and manipulated animals.

Book Plantations and Protected Areas

Download or read book Plantations and Protected Areas written by Brett M. Bennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas. Today, the world's forests are threatened by global warming, growing demand for wood products, and increasing pressure to clear tropical forests for agricultural use. Economic globalization has enabled Western corporations to export timber processing jobs and import cheap wood products from developing countries. Timber plantations of exotic, fast-growing species supply an ever-larger amount of the world's wood. In response, many countries have established forest areas protected from development. In this book, Brett Bennett views today's forestry issues from a historical perspective. The separation of wood production from the protection of forests, he shows, stems from entangled environmental, social, political, and economic factors. This divergence—driven by the concomitant intensification of production and creation of vast protected areas—is reshaping forest management systems both public and private. Bennett shows that plantations and protected areas evolved from, and then undermined, an earlier integrated forest management system that sought both to produce timber and to conserve the environment. He describes the development of the science and profession of forestry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; discusses the twentieth-century creation of timber plantations in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia; and examines the controversies over deforestation that led to the establishment of protected areas. Bennett argues that the problems associated with the bifurcation of forest management—including the loss of forestry knowledge necessary to manage large ecosystems for diverse purposes—suggest that a more integrated model would be preferable.

Book Proceedings  of The  Annual Meeting

Download or read book Proceedings of The Annual Meeting written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of Conference

Download or read book Proceedings of Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Slain Wood

Download or read book The Slain Wood written by William Boyd and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper industry rejuvenated the American South—but took a heavy toll on its land and people. When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region’s number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp and paper industry in the American South during the twentieth century and the social and environmental changes that accompanied it. Drawing on extensive interviews and historical research, he tells the fascinating story of one of the region’s most important but understudied industries. The Slain Wood reveals how a thoroughly industrialized forest was created out of a degraded landscape, uncovers the ways in which firms tapped into informal labor markets and existing inequalities of race and class to fashion a system for delivering wood to the mills, investigates the challenges of managing large papermaking complexes, and details the ways in which mill managers and unions discriminated against black workers. It also shows how the industry’s massive pollution loads significantly disrupted local environments and communities, leading to a long struggle to regulate and control that pollution.

Book Proceedings of the Southern Forest Economics Workshop on Evaluating Even and All aged Timber Management Options for Southern Forest Lands

Download or read book Proceedings of the Southern Forest Economics Workshop on Evaluating Even and All aged Timber Management Options for Southern Forest Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: