Wild Earth 3, no. 2
Wild Earth 3, no. 2 on imperiled predators like bears and lions, the Eastern forest recovery, Alabama wildlands, deep ecology in the former Soviet Union, and the salmon/selway ecosystem.
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forestry
forests
Wild Earth 3, no. 1
Wild Earth 3, no. 1 on the Northwoods wilderness recovery, the Southern Ozarks, endangered species like the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker and the Perdido Key Beach Mouse, and the breadth and the limits of the deep ecology movement.
Invisible Labor: Adivasi Workers in the History of South Indian Forest Conservation
The exploitation of the cheap manual labor provided by Adivasis and the appropriation of their indigenous environmental knowledge has enabled and equally influenced environmental governance at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary since colonial times.
The Satoyama Movement: Envisioning Multi-Species Commons in Postindustrial Japan
This paper discusses one especially vigorous wing of the satoyama revitalization movement in Japan: the mobilization to recreate forests that produce highly valued matsutake mushrooms.
Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times
About this issue
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
Content
"The Role of Customary Institutions in the Conservation of Biodiversity: Sacred Forests in Mozambique"
In this paper the conservation value of traditionally protected forests is studied with regard to its ecological representativity and institutional persistence.
"Forestry and the Art of Frying Small Fish"
David Russell narrates the exploration of trees and woods.
"Representations of Tropical Forests and Tropical Forest-Dwellers in Travel Accounts of National Geographic"
This essay examines the dominant images of rainforests and rainforest peoples portrayed in accounts of travels in tropical America published in National Geographic.
"An Institutionalist Approach to Environmental Valuation: The Regional Forest Programme of Southwest Finland as an Example"
This paper discusses the impacts of different formal and informal institutions upon the Regional Forest Programme of Southwest Finland (1997–2001).
"Shifting Forest Value Orientations in the United States, 1980–2001: A Computer Content Analysis"
This paper examines three forest value orientations—clusters of interrelated values and basic beliefs about forests—that emerged from an analysis of the public discourse about forest planning, management, and policy in the United States.