Knock on wood : nature as commodity in Douglas fir country /

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Knock on Wood explores a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Home to some of the highest quality timber in the world, states like Oregon are hotbeds of environmental activism, som...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prudham, W. Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, ©2005.
Temas:
Lumber trade > Environmental aspects > Northwest, Pacific.
Environmental policy > Northwest, Pacific.
Forests and forestry > Economic aspects > Northwest, Pacific.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
Environmental policy
Forests and forestry > Economic aspects
Lumber trade > Environmental aspects
Pacific Northwest
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The political economy of an ecological crisis
  • Working the land : production relations in logging and reforestation
  • Industrial ecologies and regional geographies
  • Geographies of scale and scope in lumbering
  • Toward organic machines : the historical political economy of Douglas-fir tree improvement
  • Timber and down : the rise and fall of sustained yield regulation in Oregon's Illinois Valley
  • Epilogue : owls, ecosystems, and the new forestry.

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