Forest Sustainability: The History, the Challenge, the Promise

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 c...