“…The existential transformations of Brazil's Amazon and Cerrado regions, previously inhabited by Indigenous people but now being deforested by colonizers who expand soybean plantations, are analyzed in detail. …”

“…Anyone who walks through the forests of Costa Rica will find fascinating the diversity of trees that provide shade and food for the rest of the organisms. …”

“…Among others, it requires societies to sustainably manage forests, halt and reverse land degradation, combat desertification, and halt biodiversity loss. …”

“…We are already seeing the impacts of global climate change in terms of heatwaves, forest fires and increased storms. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) explicitly recognize the equal importance of the social, economic and environmental dimensions of development. …”

“…Agroforestry has great potential for reducing deforestation and forest degradation, providing rural livelihoods and habitats for species outside formally protected land, and alleviating resource-use pressure on conservation areas. …”

“…But this fail fast, step-and-pivot philosophy is like taking a random walk in the forest without a compass. If You Really Want to Change the World is about helping entrepreneurs find true north.Henry Kressel and Norman Winarsky-technologists, inventors, and investors with stellar track records-provide a guide for those who wish to create a market-leading company that will have a real impact: a disciplined and staged approach they have used to launch, invest in, and develop scores of highly successful companies.If You Really Want to Change the World leads entrepreneurs through the critical stages of venture development, from concept to acquisition or public offering to maintaining a rich culture of innovation in the company. …”

“…The potential to create socio-ecological resilience is examined across a wide range of landscapes, including agricultural, island, forest, coastal, and urban landscapes, across sixteen countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Samoa, South Africa, the United States, Turkey, Uruguay, and Vanuatu. …”

“…In the modern era of industrial revolution, urbanization, and deforestation of forest land, carbon (C) sequestration through well-known activities called "land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF)" could establish a win-win situation from a climate change and sustainable development perspective. …”

“…Can it deliver urgently needed improvements to complex problems like deforestation and the exploitation of people? In this controversial new book, Scott Poynton, founder of The Forest Trust, makes a compelling case for a new approach to social and environmental problems that goes "beyond certification". …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case study: role of conservation and domestication of minor woody forest plants for local communities in Nigeria / J.C. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Modelling philosophy, where we get momentarily lost in a forest, but emerge intact; 2. Population genetics, where we find males that treat females quite badly, and some salmon get caught; 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A walk across the park, into the forest, and back to the garden: the sculpture park in Britain / Joy Sleeman -- Naturalizing neoclassicism: little Sparta and the public gardens of Ian Hamilton Finlay / Patrick Eyres…”
Sumario

“…Merck's Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it · Eugene Kranz struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft · Arlene Blum organizes the first women's ascent of one of the world's most dangerous mountains · Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leads his tattered troops into a pivotal Civil War battle at Little Round Top · John Gutfreund loses Salomon Brothers when his inattention to a trading scandal almost topples the Wall Street giant · Clifton Wharton restructures a $50 billion pension system direly out of touch with its customers · Alfredo Cristiani transforms El Salvador's decade-long civil war into a negotiated settlement · Nancy Barry leads Women's World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty · Wagner Dodge faces the decision of a lifetime as a fast-moving forest fire overtakes his firefighting crew…”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contiene: Arbuscular mycorrhiza and soil microbes / Mohammad Miransari -- Ectomycorrhizae and forest plants fitness / L. Montecchio and L. Scattolin -- Role of VAM in nutrient uptake of crop plants / V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quiz -- Planning the Active Directory Namespace -- Subdividing the Active Directory Namespace -- Administrative or Geographical Organization of Domains -- Creating Forests and Domains -- Requirements for Installing Active Directory Domain Services -- Installing Active Directory Domain Services -- Performing Unattended Installations of Active Directory -- Server Core Domain Controllers -- Removing Active Directory -- Interoperability with Previous Versions of Active Directory -- Forest and Domain Functional Levels -- The Adprep Utility…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: compensations, CSR measures and gendered impacts of a solar energy project in Morocco / Sarah Ryser -- Global changes in local governance of the commons : the case of the African Parks Foundation engagement in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia / Girma Kelboro and Till Stellmacher -- Discourse and entanglement in a transnational conservation arena : deciphering the ideologies and narratives behind conservation discourse in the "glocal" commons in Kenya / Samuel Weissman -- Rain forest anomy : national parks, REDD+ implementation and the run to the forest in Jambi, Indonesia / Heinzpeter Znoj, Rahel Jud and Yudi Bachtiakora -- A structured checklist to identify connections between land grabbing and water grabbing / Insa Theesfeld -- International investment agreements and mega-regionals : promoting or undermining the right to water? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…--Dialectical movement as feminist technique in the works of Carmen Laforet / Margaret E. W. Jones.--Irony and death in Pío Baroja's 'Los panaderos' / Ricardo L. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Logical theories and compatible operations; 5. Forest algebras; 6. Automata and semigroups recognizing infinite words; 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…To Find More About Organ Transplantation: Ethical Aspects of Media Stories on Organ Donation from Romanian Newspapers / 8 Seeing the Forest Beyond the Trees: A Holistic Approach to Health-Care Organizational Ethics / 9 Disability @ the Movies: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics / 10 The Info-Computational Turn in Bioethics / 11 The Principle of Autonomy in Palliative Care: The Moldavian Perspective / 12 Philosophical Foundations and the Role of Counseling in the Ethics of Informed Consent / 13 Bioethics as Biopolitics: A Foucauldian Perspective / 14 How Should One Die? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nyangatom Livelihood and the Omo Riverine Forest -- Chapter 9. Turkana Survival Systems at Lake Turkana: Vulnerability to Collapse from Omo Basin Development -- Chapter 10. …”