Donald W. Floyd’s Forest Sustainability: The History, the Challenge, the Promise traces humanity’s evolving relationship with forests and outlines contemporary threats and responses. Floyd begins with historical uses—sacred groves, fuel, and construction—showing how rising demand and short-term exploitation eroded earlier reverence. He charts the emergence of conservation ideas in the West as scarcity prompted long-term thinking, and contrasts nations that have regained or expanded forest cover through strong institutions and policies with those still losing forests to agriculture and pasture.
Floyd examines the multifaceted meaning of “sustainability,” the conceptual shift to seeing Earth as a closed system, and competing approaches to forest management. He highlights forests’ critical role in carbon sequestration and climate mitigation even as climate change intensifies risks: fires, droughts, pests, and disease threaten forest resilience alongside ongoing human pressures for wood and land. The book assesses ecological and policy challenges, explores how the forest itself is changing, and outlines paths toward sustainable forestry practices. Essential for landowners, policymakers, and students, the work concludes with an annotated bibliography to guide further study.
- 86 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Forest History Society Issues Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Sustainable Forestry, Defined
- Chapter Two. From Sacred Groves to Sustainable Timber
- Chapter Three. The Forests of Spaceship Earth
- Chapter Four. The Challenges to Forest Sustainability
- Chapter Five. Concluding Thoughts
- Selected Bibliography
- Conversions for Units of Measure
- About the Author
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