
Wild Foresting : Practicing Nature's Wisdom.
Title:
Wild Foresting : Practicing Nature's Wisdom.
Author:
Drengson, Alan.
ISBN:
9781550924251
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (319 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Life On Our Planet Is In Trouble -What Will YOU Do? -- Introduction: Wild Foresting -A Vision Emerges -- Part I: Wild Forests and Perennial Wisdom -- Chapter 1: Values Deep in theWoods -- Chapter 2: The Place and the Story -- Chapter 3: Forests and Sacred Groves -- Chapter 4: Enrichment Forestry -- Chapter 5: Ecoforestry - Doing the Right Things -- Part II: Wild Forests, Trees and Diversity of Values -- Chapter 6: Ecological Principles for Responsible Forest Use -- Chapter 7: A Tree is a Quintessential Plant -- Chapter 8: Salmon Nutrients, Nitrogen Isotopes and Coastal Forests -- Chapter 9: Life with Carnivores in the Great Bear Rainforest - Notes from an AutumnDiary -- Chapter 10: Why Preserve Wild Forests? -- Chapter 11: Buddhism and GlobalWarming -- Part III: Case Studies Here and There -- Chapter 12: Lessons from the Old Growth -- Chapter 13: Renewing our Forest Culture - The Art and Practice of Natural Forests -- Chapter 14: Restoring a Forest -A Remedy for Our Ills -- Chapter 15: The Vision of Trees For Life -- Chapter 16: Learning from Trees -- Chapter 17: Gaviotas - Lessons from a Global Classroom -- Chapter 18: A Letter from Victoria -- Chapter 19: The Future of Ecoforestry inWestern Australia -- Chapter 20: Eco Tipping Points - How a Vicious Cycle Can Become Virtuous -- Part IV: Indigenous Knowledge,Meeting Human andWild Forest Needs -- Chapter 21: A First Nations Perspective on Ecosystem Management -- Chapter 22: The Culture of Forests - Haida Traditional Knowledge and Forestry in the 21st Century -- Chapter 23: Plant Teachers as a Source of Healing in the Peruvian Amazon -- Chapter 24: Tree Meditation Meets Shamanism -- Chapter 25: Wild Humans -- Part V: Wild Foresting, Healthy Children and Lifelong Learning.
Chapter 26: Nowadays We Idolize Nature - or Fear It -- Chapter 27: The Powerful Link Between Conserving Land and Preserving Health -- Chapter 28: Creating a New Land Movement with Children -- Chapter 29: Fairies, Forests and Childhood Education -- Chapter 30: Beyond Ecophobia -- Chapter 31: The Longest Journey and Role of an Enlightened Witness -- Chapter 32: Access to Free Nature -- Chapter 33: Ecointelligence and Hope -- Chapter 34: Students Becoming Teachers through Place-Based Education -- Part VI: Wild Forests and the Fate of the World -- Chapter 35: Earth's Greatest Crisis -- Chapter 36: The Future of British Columbia Forests Requires Resilience Management -- Chapter 37: Aboriginal Forests, Innu Culture and New Sustainable Economics -- Chapter 38: Creating Institutions of Care - The Case for Democratic Forest Trusts -- Chapter 39: Transforming Ourselves, Renewing the Earth -- Chapter 40: Shifting Direction to Local Interdependence -- Afterword: Where We Are Going -- Endnotes and References -- Appendix 1: Industrial and Ecological Approaches -- Appendix 2: Resources for Supporting and Learning about Wild Foresting -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Abstract:
An in-depth anthology dedicated to reconciliation in human-wild forest relationships.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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