Unasylva - No. 137 - Monitoring the tropical forests: The first step













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An international journal of forestry and forest industries - Vol. 34 - 1982

FAO - Food and agriculture Organization of the United Nations

DOCUMENTS ON FORESTRY · FOREST INDUSTRIES · FORESTRY EDUCATION · ADMINISTRATION · ENVIRONMENT · WILDLIFE · WOOD ENERGY · OTHER RELATED FORESTRY SUBJECTS ·

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EDITOR, T.M. PASCA

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Marcelle Biagini, Robert Wazeka

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Forestry Department: J.E.M. ARNOLD (Chairman), J. BIM, L.S. BOTERO, T.M. CATTERSON, A. CONTRERAS, L. LETOURNEAU, M.R. DE MONTALEMBERT, M. MUTHOO, C. PALMBERG, T.M. PASCA

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Hans Jurg Steinlin
Monitoring the world's tropical forests

John Spears
Preserving watershed environments

Gunnar Poulsen
The non-wood products of African forests

A.J. Leslie
First of all, industry needs managers

The World of Forestry

Allo-Forêt
Choosing temperatures for seed germination
Testing fungicides
Canada: More forest expansion; concern over acid rain
A Chinese mountain village
New international mountain society
Bringing modern science into herbal medicine
The problem of combining electricity and forest development

Environment

Saving India's crocodiles - A success story
The useful reindeer

Books - A major contribution to the literature of eucalypts

Information on wood products markets
Forest economic maps
Walking in the eroded footprints of the Maya
Supertrees

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