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Autor:
Maria Nijnik, Alexander S. Mather
Publikováno v:
Landscape and Urban Planning. 86:267-275
This paper considers the decision-making aspects of a closer integration of woodlands with other land uses in rural landscapes in Scotland regarding their socio-economic components and in view of positive implications, which woodlands have for the en
Autor:
Alexander S. Mather
Publikováno v:
International Forestry Review. 9:491-502
SUMMARY China, India and Viet Nam have recently experienced forest transitions from net deforestation to net reforestation as many European countries and US states underwent in the past. An embryonic forest-transition theory seeks to explain the phen
Autor:
Paul E. Waggoner, Roger A. Sedjo, Jingyun Fang, Alexander S. Mather, Pekka E. Kauppi, Jesse H. Ausubel
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103:17574-17579
Amid widespread reports of deforestation, some nations have nevertheless experienced transitions from deforestation to reforestation. In a causal relationship, the Forest Identity relates the carbon sequestered in forests to the changing variables of
Autor:
Alexander S. Mather
Publikováno v:
Global Environmental Change. 15:267-280
Global environmental data have grown in abundance in recent decades: this paper reviews this growth in respect of forests. Assessments of world forests were undertaken at intervals during the 20th century, notably by FAO. Yet data problems persist: i
Autor:
Alexander S. Mather
Publikováno v:
Scottish Geographical Journal. 120:83-98
During the 20th century, the forest area in Scotland expanded threefold, after many centuries of decline. Similar trends of forest expansion following deforestation have operated in many other developed countries. The passage from net deforestation t
Autor:
Alexander S. Mather
Publikováno v:
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 19:249-268
Symptoms of postproductivism are more clearly developed in forestry than in agriculture, but they have attracted less attention. The ‘postindustrial’ forest, in which the emphasis placed on timber production is reduced relative to that placed on
Autor:
Alexander S. Mather, J. Fairbairn
Publikováno v:
Environment and History. 6:399-421
The forest area in Switzerland has been expanding for more than one hundred years, after a long period of contraction culminating in an apparently accelerated phase of deforestation in the first half of the 19th century. The nature and causes of this
Autor:
Alexander S. Mather, C. L. Needle
Publikováno v:
The Geographical Journal. 166:2-13
The relationship between national trends in forest area and population is reviewed at the global scale. Evidence of an inverse relationship is confirmed. The relationship, however, may have weakened in recent decades, and it has clearly undergone a r
Publikováno v:
Journal of Rural Studies. 15:65-90
Deforestation in developing countries has given rise to much concern in recent years. Until the early 19th century, many now-developed countries such as France experienced similar deforestation. Net deforestation then gave way to net reforestation: t