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Chapter 17 Rural Land Use
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UN Food and
Agriculture Organisation Forestry home page:
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A large site,
click on "Country" to access a huge database giving country-by-country
details of forest resources, management, products and trade. Click
on "Subject" for information on FAO programmes and a number of forestry
topics. There is also an on-line database of world forestry statistics,
a search facility and a site map. From the latter, download the latest
edition of The State of the World's Forests (published every 2 years;
current version 1999).
http://www.fao.org/fo/forestry.htm |
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Forestry
Commission of Great Britain home page:
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This an
informative site about forestry in Great Britain, ranging from forestry
as an industry to forests as a recreation. It includes a news section
and other online publications, and an alphabetical index.
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/ |
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USDA Forestry
Service:
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A huge
and wide-ranging site covering varied aspects of forestry in the USA
plus forest news from around the world. Check out the latest forestry
management plans for individual US forests, recreation facts and figures,
how to fight a forest fire and much more.
http://www.fs.fed.us/ |
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ForestWorld
home page:
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A large commercial site, giving forest news, a guide to sustainable
forestry, access to "Woods of the World Online" (a free database on
over 900 species with facts, pictures and maps); and global forestry
data (forestry facts and figures country-by-country).
http://www.forestworld.com/index2.html |
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UK Countryside
Agency home page:
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A
much-improved site, now with useful "Research and Reference" and "News
and Features" sections; also has CA press releases. The Research and
Reference section has a downloadable Research Notes series on a wide
range of topics from agricultural landscapes to a Visitors to National
Parks survey; the monthly Rural Economic Bulletin; and the State of
the Countryside Report (for England). News and Features has Countryside
Focus, an online 'newspaper', published 6 times a year, plus the rights
of way proposals.
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/ |
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Council
for the Protection of Rural England home page:
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A campaigning site: read about the
expected loss of countryside in SE England; see the results of the
CPRE's survey on fear of traffic in country lanes; compare (and
contrast?!) the Tranquil Area Maps for the 1960s and 1990s. Also
has CPRE press releases.
http://www.greenchannel.com/cpre/main.htm
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