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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 211x140x23 mm, weight: 370 g, 61 photographs; 6 maps
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Apr-2023
  • Leidėjas: WW Norton & Co
  • ISBN-10: 1324050373
  • ISBN-13: 9781324050377
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 211x140x23 mm, weight: 370 g, 61 photographs; 6 maps
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Apr-2023
  • Leidėjas: WW Norton & Co
  • ISBN-10: 1324050373
  • ISBN-13: 9781324050377
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaskas Bering seacoast to Canadas Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South Americas bulge; the Congo, occupying parts of six nations in Africas wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California.

These mega forests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures and a stable climate, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Mega forests serve an essential role in decarbonising the atmospherethe boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers, 190 years worth of global emissions at 2019 levelsand saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planets most formidable ongoing crisis.

Reid and Lovejoy offer practical solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face, from vastly expanding protected areas, to supporting Indigenous forest stewards, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with the people and animals who inhabit them, Reid and Lovejoy take us on an exhilarating global journey.

Recenzijos

"Eloquent and fact-filled.... Ever Green, for all its scholarly precision, is ultimately an impassioned plea to save the worlds last great wild places by two men who had come, through long professional acquaintance, to love them. Readers will find their passion to be contagious." -- Richard Schiffman - The Washington Post "There is no better or more readable guide to the bewildering array of threats to forests or to the economic and institutional programs created to protect them. . . . Its impossible to read Ever Green without being moved by the vision and commitment of the peopleincluding its authorswhove devoted themselves to protecting the worlds forests." -- Verlyn Klinkenborg - The New York Review of Books "Nothing could be more important than saving the worlds last remaining forests, and no one could make a more eloquent case for this than John Reid and Thomas Lovejoy. Ever Green is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of life." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction "Five giant forestsAmazon, Congo, New Guinea, and two taigasholding carbon, diverse life, and the fate of the planet. This is a profoundly important, fresh-minded, deftly written, and constructive book. Therefore its also thrilling." -- David Quammen, author of The Tangled Tree and Spillover

List of Maps
ix
A Note on Weights and Measures xiii
Prologue Anastasia's Woods 1(12)
1 The Forest System
13(16)
2 Mapping the Root Forests
29(11)
3 The North Woods
40(25)
4 The Jungles
65(48)
5 Forests of Thought
113(21)
6 Guardians
134(28)
7 Forests and the Real Economy
162(16)
8 Money Trees
178(15)
9 The People's Forest
193(21)
10 Less Roads Traveled
214(21)
11 Making Nature
235(13)
12 An Invitation
248(9)
Acknowledgments 257(6)
Notes 263(28)
Index 291
John W. Reid is a conservationist and economist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, and Scientific American. He lives in Sebastopol, California. Thomas E. Lovejoy was a pioneering biologist who led and championed forest conservation efforts for over 50 years.