Author: Lloyd Irland

Ethical issues can and will arise in private employment, for consultants, for government officials, and in the nonprofit sector. This book is intended to ease the learning curve both for students and for mid-career people who are shouldering new responsibilities in natural resource and environmental management careers. A little preparation will go a long way in helping to navigate these choices.

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Sampling Strategies for Natural Resources and the Environment
(2007)

Authors: Timothy G. Gregoire and Harry T. Valentine

By presenting a conceptual understanding of each sampling design and estimation procedure as well as mathematical derivations and proofs in the chapter appendices, this text promotes a deep understanding of the underpinnings of sampling theory, estimation, and inference. Moreover, it will help you reliably sample natural populations and continuums.

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Confronting Sustainability: Forest Certification in Developing and Transitioning Countries
(2006)

Editors: Benjamin Cashore, Fred Gale, Errol Meidinger, Deanna Newsom

16-country, 622-page comparative historical analysis on the emergence of forest certification within developing countries containing some of the world's most environmentally sensitive forests.

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Environmental Services of Agroforestry Systems
(2005)
The Haworth Press

Editor: Florencia Montagnini,

Co-published as Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Volume 21, Number 1 2005.

Examines how agroforestry systems and tree plantations can help mitigate climate change and degradation of biodiversity.

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Tropical Forest Ecology
The Basis for Conservation and Management
(2005)
Springer

Authors: Florencia Montagnini and Carl F. Jordan

A multi-disciplinary approach to better the understanding of tropical forest ecology as a necessary stop in developing strategies for conservation and management.

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Governing Through Markets: Regulating Forestry through Non-State Environmental Governance
(2004)

Authors: Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom

Explores the emergence of a startling new institutional design: non-state market driven "certification" governance systems who gain their policy making authority from the market’s supply chain.

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Forest Stand Dynamics
Update Edition
(1996)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Authors: Chadwick D. Oliver and Bruce C. Larson

Uses a mechanistic perspective to describe how forests grow and respond to intentional manipulations and natural disturbances. Synthesizes the latest information from physiology, ecology and silviculture and compares patterns in different regions. Emphasizes the constant change of all forests and shows that similar development patterns are occurring in forests in North American and beyond.

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