Peter Schoonmaker

Rain Forests of Home (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Stretching from the redwoods of California to the vast stands of spruce and hemlock in southeast Alaska, coastal temperate rain forests have been home to one of the highest densities of human settlements on the continfor thousands of years. However, the well-being of this region is increasingly threatened by diminishing natural capital, declining employmin traditional resource-based industries, and outward migration of young people to cities.The Rain Forests of Home brings together a diverse array of thinkers -- conservationists, community organizers, botanists, anthropologists, zoologists, Native Americans, ecologists, and others -- to presa multilayered, multidimensional portrait of the coastal temperate rain forest and its people. Joining natural and social science perspectives, the book provides readers with a valuable understanding of the region's natural and human history, along with a vision of its future and strategies for realizing that vision.Authors describe the physical setting and examine the geographic and evolutionary forces that have shaped the region since the last glacial period, with individual chapters covering oceanography, climate, geologic processes, vegetation, fauna, streams and rivers, and terrestrial/marine interactions. Three chapters cover the history of human habitation, and the book concludes with an exploration of receconomic, political, and cultural trends.Interspersed among the chapters are compelling profiles of community-level initiatives and programs aimed at restoring damaged ecosystems, promoting sustainable use of resources, and fostering community-based economic development. The Rain Forests of Home offers for the first time a unified description of the characteristics, history, culture, economy, and ecology of the coastal temperate rain forest. It is essential reading for anyone who lives in or cares about the region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610913379
• Artikelnr.: 39078175

Autorenporträt

Peter K. Schoonmaker is the founder and president of the Institute for the Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Bettina von Hagen is vice president of Ecotrust and managing director of its Natural Capital Fund. Edward C. Wolf is Ecotrust's director of communications. Based in Portland, Oregon, and headquartered in the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center, Ecotrust is a recognized leader in efforts to build a conservation economy along the West Coast of North America.