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Balancing Act: Environmental Issues in Forestry [Paperback]

J. P. Hamish Kimmins (Author)

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Publication Date: Jan 1 1997

In Balancing Act Hamish Kimmins calls for a balanced, more objective approach to forestry issues. He argues that these issues are too often debated without any common understanding of what forestry is really all about or about how forest ecosystems work. This new edition of the bestselling book has been revised to reflect new thinking about sustainable forestry and includes three completely new chapters. In the first few chapters of the book, the basic principles of forestry and ecology are outlined. The major issues facing forestry in the 1990s and beyond -- not only in British Columbia but worldwide -- are then discussed. These include clearcutting, slashburning, management chemicals, old growth, biological diversity, 'new forestry,' climate change, acid rain, the comparison between temperate and tropical forestry, long-term decisions in forestry, and the sustainability of various forest values. The new chapters look at the ongoing debate over the meaning of 'sustainable forestry,' 'respect for nature,' 'ecosystem management,' and ecosystem 'health and integrity.' This new edition of Balancing Act goes further in clarifying the issues at the heart of the forestry/environment debate. Readers will gain a new understanding of how our forest ecosystems work and how they can be managed sustainably.

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Product Details

Paperback: 310 pages
Publisher: UBC Press; 2nd ed edition (Jan 1 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0774805749
ISBN-13: 978-0774805742
Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 2.5 x 26 cm
Shipping Weight: 717 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #441,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #60 in Books > Science & Math > Nature & Ecology > Conservation > Forests

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Balancing Act: Environmental Issues in Forestry , by the University of British Columbia forestry professor Hamish Kimmins, is an interesting attempt to be both topical and scientific on the subject of how we're mowing down our trees. It's a noble but doomed attempt, I'm afraid, because Kimmins is trying to be judicious and sane about an industry that has been tragically abusive for half a century, and attempting to explain the logic behind practices that a six-year-old can recognize as crazy and wrong. The problem is that there is a vast gulf between Canada's industrial practice of forestry and the theoretical principles that regulate it. Forestry is a political industry, and its future will be governed by political and even religious winds—in which the saner heads will be hung out to dry by both sides.
Brian Fawcett (Books in Canada) -- Books in Canada --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Hamish Kimmins is a professor of forestry ecology in the Department of Forest Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He is past chairman of the BC Ecological Reserves Committee, was moderator of the National Forest Round Table, and has been a consultant to government, the forest industry and environmental groups on proposals for wilderness areas, parks, and ecological reserves, and on a variety of environmental issues in forestry.