“…The book considers issues of deforestation, disease prevention, climate change and drought, water and land management, and more. …”

“…In the last 10,000 years Europe has been transformed from a largely forested, virgin landscape in to the manicured continent we know today, and at an ever-accelerating rate. …”

“…The Pamir-Alai vegetation is fairly diverse and can be generally divided into 21 types: mesophilous deciduous forests, riverside forests, river-bed forests, xerothermophilous shrubs, subalpine coniferous forests, river-bed shrubs, meadows and pastures, segetal vegetation, alpine meadows and swards, steppes and so-called semi-savannas, xerothermophilous swards, xerothermophilous dwarf shrubs, desert and semi-desert vegetation, fen-spring vegetation, tallherbs, littoral vegetation, aquatic vegetation, scree and sliding rock vegetation, rock vegetation and salt-marsh vegetation. …”

“…Follows the wildlife of these mountains, from the peaks of the High Ranges, where the drama of the Nilgiri tahr rut never before fully captured on camera takes place during the height of the monsoon, to the thick shola forests, home to the highly endangered Lion-Tailed Macaque, to the dry deciduous forests at the foothills of the mountains, where elephants and other wildlife wait in expectation for the coming deluge. …”

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“…Ésta es una publicación de índole docente dirigida a estudiantes de Ingeniería Forestal, que lejos de quedarse en una simple síntesis de conceptos, metodologías y técnicas sobre el tema de la repoblación forestal, pretende dar pautas que permitan su desarrollo y aplicación, así como que sirva como punto de partida para la creación constante del corpus de conocimientos que como técnicos tienen la obligación de desarrollar, actualizar y mejorar…”
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“…Although a natural process, soil erosion has increased significantly due to human intervention, especially in the last centuries, through diverse activities such as intensive agriculture, overgrazing, urban sprawl, deforestation, and industrial and mining activities. …”