Rare Tropical Timbers
Author: Sara Oldfield
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9782880329594
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Author: Sara Oldfield
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9782880329594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel James Record
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 744
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe countries and their forests. The trees and their woods.
Author: Martin Chudnoff
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Chudnoff
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 829
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past two decades U.S. lumber imports from the tropics have increased fourfold. Plywood trade, mostly from Asian sources, has soared forty-fold and now equals our domestic production. Log imports, though, have decreased drastically from about 100 million board feet (log scale) in the 1950's to 30 million currently. Much of the world timber trade now is in the form of processed material. Many more tropical wood species and species groupings are being made available to U.S. processors. Most of these have been well known for many years on the European markets. This interest in supplemental supplies from overseas is in both softwoods and hardwoods. An extensive foreign literature has described the properties and uses of tropical woods, but much of it is no longer readily available. In this country the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, over the years, issued 'Information Leaflets' or 'Foreign Wood Series' reports on some species of importance. But many of these are now out of print. The most recent comprehensive document, 'Properties of Imported Tropical Woods, ' contained a description of about 100 tropical genera.
Author: Jean GĂ©rard
Publisher: Editions Quae
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 1002
ISBN-13: 2759227987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis atlas presents technical information for professionals who process and use temperate or tropical timber. It combines the main technical characteristics of 283 tropical species and 17 species from temperate regions most commonly used in Europe with their primary uses.
Author: G.W. Findlay
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 940172752X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch research has been done recently, and more is now in progress, to increase the effectiveness under tropical conditions of methods which have been developed in Europe for preserving timber. This book attempts to bring together the results of some of these studies. I have not attempted to cover the tropical zones of Central and South America as this would have extended the book beyond its limits. But I am grateful to the authors who have contributed chapters dealing with the different aspects and solutions of the problems of the tropical areas of the Old World. The International Research Group for Wood Preservation (The I.R.G.) at its annual meetings in different countries has provided a valuable forum for cooperation in this developing field. Anyone concerned with the subject would be well advised to study the publications issued by this group. Their office is at Drottning Kristinas vag 47C S - 11428 Stockholm, Sweden. Although timber is a renewable resource there is every reason why it should not be wasted through premature decay or the ravages of termites etc., when effective measures for its preservation are available and, if correctly applied, can greatly reduce the cost of maintaining timber structures.
Author: T. Erfurth
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Franklin R. Longwood
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Robert Harrison
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781782543848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The text is valuable in that it describes tropical small-scale farm forestry and the complex interrelationships between social, economic, and biological issues quite well . . . For readers interested in tropical forestry in a developed nation, the book is a detailed and excellent source of information.' - Matthew Pelkki, Natural Resources Journal There has been an increased awareness of the need to establish and maintain small-scale forestry in tropical countries. This is due to concerns over continued deforestation, as well as the long-term environmental and economic resources these plantations can contribute if managed successfully. This book examines the constraints that limit the development of small-scale forestry in tropical environments and how they can be overcome.