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Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face - including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation - are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces.

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"A clear message emerges that established views and conservation approaches based on seeing people as separate from nature-or viewing the land as divided into the pristine and wild versus the humanized and despoiled-are erroneous and doomed to generate unsuccessful policies and approaches to stewardship. These are not novel ideas, but this volume is unusual and valuable in making a forceful case for their validity based on work from many different landscapes and cultures and a great diversity of environmental and historical conditions." (David R. Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, Harvard University)"

The Social Lives of Forests

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    A Hardback by Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison, Christine Padoch

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 3/4/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226322667, 978-0226322667
      ISBN10: 0226322661
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      Book Synopsis
      Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face - including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation - are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces.

      Trade Review
      "A clear message emerges that established views and conservation approaches based on seeing people as separate from nature-or viewing the land as divided into the pristine and wild versus the humanized and despoiled-are erroneous and doomed to generate unsuccessful policies and approaches to stewardship. These are not novel ideas, but this volume is unusual and valuable in making a forceful case for their validity based on work from many different landscapes and cultures and a great diversity of environmental and historical conditions." (David R. Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, Harvard University)"

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