The Forest of the Future – A New Reality

Understanding the ecosystem

by Hans Jürgen Böhmer

Description

What happened with forest dieback? The predictions of the 1980s that forests would be in decline across Europe have not come true. Currently, attention again focuses on the doom scenarios of the loss of entire forests and cultural landscapes in an emotional and sometimes hysterical debate. Biogeographer Hans Jürgen Böhmer refers to updated case studies and his 30 years of research experience on global ecosystems to demonstrate extremely complex interrelations of the natural world that various actors monitor in contrasting ways and characterized by different times and ideologies. Böhmer advocates to embed the sustainability debate more strongly in the living environment, rather than relying exclusively on model calculations.

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Author Biography

Professor Dr Hans Jürgen Böhmer studied geography, biology, geology, political science and journalism at the universities of Bamberg and Erlangen and is currently Full Professor of Biogeography at the University of the South Pacific. In October 2019, he co-founded a taskforce of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations to promote global monitoring of the phenomenon of forest dieback.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher S. Hirzel Verlag
  • Publication Date November 2021
  • Orginal LanguageGerman
  • ISBN/Identifier 9783777629223
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 24 EUR
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleBeim nächsten Wald wird alles anders. Das Ökosystem verstehen
  • Copyright Year2021

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