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...