Download or read book Ecological Forest Management Handbook written by Guy R. Larocque and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Ecological Forest Management Handbook continues to provide forestry professionals and students with basic principles of ecological forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels. Thoroughly updated and revised, the handbook addresses numerous topics and explains that ecological forest management is a complex process that requires broad ecological knowledge. It discusses how to develop adaptive management scenarios to harvest resources in a sustainable way and provide ecosystem services and social functions. It includes new studies on ecological indicators, the carbon cycle, and ecosystem simulation models for various forest types: boreal, temperate, and tropical forests. NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION Provides a comprehensive collection of sustainable forest management principles and their applications Covers new ecological indicators that can be applied to address forest environmental issues Includes all types of models: empirical, gap, and process-based models Explains several basic ecological and management concepts in a clear, easy-to- understand manner This handbook is intended for researchers, academics, professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students studying and/or involved in the management of forest ecosystems. Chapters 16 and 18 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation in North America written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change affects North America and for the identification of processes, methods and tools that may help countries and communities to develop a more robust adaptive capacity. It showcases successful examples of how to manage the social, economic and environmental complexities posed by climate change. The book attempts to synthesize various branches of resilience and adaptation scholarship into a cohesive text that highlights field research and best practices that are shaping policy and practice in a wide geography from the coastal conditions of the Caribbean to the thawing landscape of the Arctic Circle.

Download or read book Vivre avec les changements climatiques au Canada written by Donald Stanley Lemmen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On utilise fréquemment des facteurs tels que la richesse, le niveau de scolarité et l'accès à l'information et aux technologies comme des indicateurs de la capacité d'un pays ou d'une région à mettre en place des mesures d'adaptation. Un autre facteur tout aussi important, mais plus difficile à quantifier, est l'expérience acquise dans un climat déjà très variable. À bien des égards, le Canada est en mesure de relever le défi de l'adaptation au changement climatique. Néanmoins, comme l'indique le Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat (GIEC) dans les chapitres à caractère régional de leur quatrième rapport d'évaluation (Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat 2007b), dans tous les pays, même les plus développés, il y a des régions, des collectivités et des secteurs qui sont vulnérables. Il est donc essentiel de comprendre les vulnérabilités au climat actuel et à venir pour déterminer les besoins en matière d'adaptation. Pour ce faire, il est nécessaire d'évaluer la sensibilité et la résilience au climat, la façon dont les facteurs sociaux, économiques et politiques influent sur la capacité d'adaptation, ainsi que les mesures et processus d'adaptation. Le présent rapport analyse ces questions dans le contexte canadien, au moyen d'une approche régionale.--Document.

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Download or read book Why We Need More Canadian Health Policy in the Media written by Noralou Roos and published by EvidenceNetwork.ca. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why We Need More Canadian Health Policy in the Media is a compilation of health policy commentaries published by EvidenceNetwork.ca experts in major newspapers in 2015. These articles highlight the most recent evidence on a wide range of health policy topics, including our aging population, healthcare costs and spending, mental health, pharmaceutical policy, the social determinants of health and distinctions between the Canadian and American healthcare system among other topics. This is the fourth volume in the annual series of eBooks produced by EvidenceNetwork.ca, the first being Canadian Health Policy in the News (2013), followed by Making Evidence Matter in Canadian Health Policy (2014) and Navigating the Evidence: Communicating Canadian Health Policy in the Media (2015). We acknowledge the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Research Manitoba, the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, and their Institute of Population and Public Health, The Canadian Frailty Network, and the University of Manitoba’s Department of Community Health Sciences and Max Rady College of Medicine whose funding supports EvidenceNetwork.ca.

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Download or read book Adaptation to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise written by Sebastian Weissenberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a concise and interdisciplinary outlook on the impacts of climate change on coastal areas and how coastal communities adapt to them. The first chapter analyses how sea level rise, changing ocean conditions, or increased climate variability and the socio-environmental context of the coastal zone leads to vulnerable communities. The second chapter addresses adaptation strategies and tools, and gives some examples of their application around the world. The third chapter describes participative action research projects undertaken in New Brunswick and how this community based approach has enabled communities to increase their climate resilience.

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Download or read book Changement Climatique la Sant Et Le Bien tre written by Canada. Climate Change and Health Office and published by Bureau du changement climatique et de la santé. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document was developed for the First Annual Climate Change and Health & Well-Being National Policy and Planning Conference held in September 2001 in Canmore, Alberta. It identifies Canada's health impacts from climate change and variability; summarizes the results of the First Annual Science and Policy Research Conference in March 2001; discusses the challenges of integrating climate change considerations into public health policies. The document also includes a summary and chronology of key international climate change events; a list of funding sources; a list of climate change and health & well-being adaptation measures; case studies.

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