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Book SynopsisDonal Magner knows the importance of forests better than most asillustrated in his critically acclaimed Stopping by Woods, the definitiveguide to over 340 of Ireland's forests and woodlands. In Why Forests? WhyWood? he seeks answers to the problems of connectedness between people,woodland and its various uses.WhyForests? Why Wood? explores the fundamental values that constitute sustainableforestry and what that means to society. Donal Magner provides a comprehensivestudy of one of our greatest renewable resources and how it is the key tosustainable living in uncertain times. This essential work illustrates theimportance of the forest ecosystem and its environmental and social benefitsbut also demonstrates how wood from sustainably managed forests displacesfossil-based materials in construction, energy and products that contribute tothe current climate crisis. In this wide-ranging work, Magner lays out howboth wood and non-wood benefits will play a major role in achieving the goalsof Ir
