Product Description: Forests—and the trees within them—have always been a central resource for the development of technology, culture, and the expansion of humans as a species. Examining and challenging our historical and modern attitudes toward wooded environments, this engaging book explores how our understanding of forests has transformed in recent years and how it fits in our continuing anxiety about our impact on the natural world...read more

Product Description: Examining the relationship between sustainability and farmland management in diffeing tempoarla spatial and production contexts, this book considers farmland multifuctionality, systems and sytemic thinking, the debates over information, knowledge and ethical aspects.

Product Description: During the Second World War, there was concern as to whether Britain, unable to import food from abroad, would be able to feed the population. Therefore, the National Farm Survey was conducted during 1941-43, and described every farm in England and Wales in great detail...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Woods and forests were the principal source of fuel in Europe for many hundreds of years. In addition, they were crucially important as a source of construction material for a wide range of domestic, agricultural, industrial and military artifacts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work explores the theme of public access to the countryside, through the eyes of a variety of commentators and researchers. In many parts of Britain the combination of agricultural intensification and increased traffic on roads means fewer pleasant and safe places to walk in the countryside...read more

Product Description: Interest in afforestation has increased recently, due to the growing demand for timber and wood products. This book provides a series of case studies showing how the ecological effects of afforestation can be examined.

Product Description: This study, sponsored by the Archbishops' Commission and the Leverhulme Trust, is the most comprehensive survey of religion and church life in rural England ever undertaken.

Product Description: "The Insights on Contemporary Issues Series" is a collection of books which concentrates on a wide range of social geography and policy related issues of direct concern to students, lecturers and policy-makers. In our complex, modern world, legal services have become a necessity...read more

Product Description: Setting out to describe how ancient woods should be managed for the purposes of nature conservation, this book has been written for the Nature Conservancy Council to encourage interest in the mangement and appreciation of ancient woodland...read more