RESOURCES

Can a stretch of land be a person in the eyes of the law? Can a body of water? In NZ, they can; a former national park has been granted personhood

A talk about growing timber by Andrew Heald, Forestry Consultant. This talk was given to RFS South Western Division members following the Divisional AGM on 11 February 2021

'Monthly Review' discusses “sustainable capitalism” and its vision of a renewed strategy for profiting on planetary destruction

Driven by the dramatic change in public attitude towards forests since the 1980s and an increased understanding of the ecological importance of maintaining structurally and functionally diverse forests

Evaluation of where the world stands in implementing the UN's Strategic Plan for Forests 2030; a blueprint for forests and people expressed through six Global Forest Goals and 26 targets

Hosted and maintained by Chatham House, provides information on illegal logging and the trade in illegal timber

Duncan Clark summarises the offsetting debate in this edited extract from The Rough Guide to Green Living

Carbon stock changes in HWP are not accounted for in the Kyoto Protocol. If HWP were accounted for countries choosing to account for HWP would have to be cautious not to compromise sustainable forest management

While the positive role of forests in climate change mitigation is generally well perceived, the contribution of wood products to mitigation is much less known and understood

Originally published in 1972, This book launched a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court

Critical examination of the social inclusivity of restoration agendas, policies, and practices as these unfold across ecological and geographic scales.

In the modern 'scientific' era participating with nature is something that seems to have become almost totally unfamiliar to us, something that is past and, according to many, can never return

Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature.

Experts from different backgrounds and perspectives suggest 12 policy ideas to help future UK forests grow for the UK government ahead of COP26

Documentary looking at the struggle of the Arhuaco, an isolated indigenous community in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada whose traditional way of life has been threatened by the armed conflict in Colombian and climate change

In 1986, during a flight over southwest Amazonia, the geographer Alceu Ranzi noticed a huge geometric earthwork cut through the middle of a vast tract of deforested land

This book argues that Exceptionalism, a rigid psychological mindset is largely responsible for the climate crisis and considers false beliefs that people feel entitled to

Alan Watson Featherstone founder of Trees for Life gives a talk at TEDxFindhorn about his life-long commitment to restore the ancient Caledonian Forest.

An environmental organisation combineing undercover investigations of criminal activity, a variety of scientific, economic and social primary evidence, & campaigning expertise to achieve systemic environmental breakthrough

Lynn Margulis provides a beautifully written and vivd new picture of evolution as a process based on interdependency and the interconnectedness of all life on the planet

A critical review of several books that have expanded the debates yielded by historical forestry and imperialism research

The best available data about forests available online for free, creating unprecedented transparency about what is happening in forests worldwide.

More than 120 countries signed an agreement to stop deforestation. With activists expressing doubts about the realities of the commitments pledged calls are being made for countries to make their strategies public

Documented patterns of timber extraction by volume, species composition, and monetary value along ageing eastern Amazonian logging frontiers

To resolve growing tension between local people’s livelihood needs and conservation aims, there has been significant interest worldwide in uses of forests that are compatible with conservation

A review of commodity deforestation and expansion, the traders and markets that dominate exports and their exposure to associated deforestation risk, and the effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments

Suzanne Simard shares the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees: their cooperation, healing capacity, memory, wisdom and sentience.

Eduardo Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting direction that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.

The voices and rights of Indigenous People and activists are crucial to halting climate breakdown and the destruction of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests. They are the real climate leaders

An ode to the rivalry between men and nature. The story of how a powerful man indulges in an unusual hobby by having century-old trees uprooted in communities along the Georgian coast and transplanted to his private garden

Buying carbon credits in exchange for a clean conscience continuing to fly, buying diesel cars and powering homes with fossil fuels is being challenged

North American forestry practices have until now been based on an industrial model now widely perceived to be unsustainable and obsolete. This book focuses on a new paradigm- philosophy, goals, policies, and practices

Composed of footage gathered for court, this film tells the fragmented story of the fight between activists and loggers in the primeval Białowieża Forest

Drengson and Taylor remind us that the knowledge exists to restore and sustain the ecological health of out forests, and to restore our relationship with the land. The next step is having the will to use that knowledge

Sensor-based monitoring offers the prospect of making new environments not simply as an extension of the human but as new “technogeographies” that connect technology, nature, and people

Global changes and developments in the international trade with wood and wood products requires reliable control mechanisms for identification of timber species, their geographic origin, & assessment of product properties

Inspired by four-fold transmigration where the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral this docu-essay traces the cycles of life and questions perception

Published in 2014, this book presents scientific and management information on multiaged silviculture, an emerging strategy for managing forestry systems worldwide

Lars Hein's ecosystem accountant approach integrates spatial information like satellite images with statistical data to get valuable data about monitoring of land use.

An ecosystem services valuation of private forest lands in Pierce County revealing the millions of dollars worth of ecosystem services provided annually

Henrik Elm addresses the challenge – how can we continue to produce furniture made from wood, while still having a positive impact on the worlds’ forests?

Timber is vital and all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we print, and so much more.

Multimedia project providing an open access archive on the global ecologies of resource exploitation and circulation

John Perlin chronicles the destruction of the world's forests through human's over dependence on wood for timber and energy

Eric Higgs explores the ethical and philosophical bases of restoration, the question of what constitutes good ecological restoration, and the profound philosophical and cultural shifts that accompany these projects.

Calculate how much CO2 is captured in your wood products. After harvesting wood for industrial purposes CO2 remains stored in the wood. This CO2 storage remains applicable as long as the wood is used as a product

A concern with social and environmental accounting automatically forces one to raise basic questions about (what is conventionally thought of as) accounting and finance - its foundations, its purposes, its assumptions

Inspired by John Evelyn's 'Sylva' published in 1664, this breathtaking contemporary version intertwines art, science and history illustrated with over 200 exquisite drawings

GTTN promotes the operationalisation of innovative tools for species identification and for determining the geographic origin of wood to verify trade claims

Increases of forest lost to harvesting in recent years suggests a potential reduction of the continent’s carbon absorption capacity and possibly indicates wider problems with the EU’s attempts to combat the climate crisis

RAISG is a consortium of civil society organisations from the Amazon countries, supported by international partners, concerned with the socio-environmental sustainability of Amazonia

How can we incorporate humanist critiques of the Anthropocene while harnessing the notion’s potential for challenging political imagination?

Approaching an age of human-made nature through the particulate, the volatile, and the radiant. We have entered the Anthropocene era- a geological age of our own making

Yanni A. Loukissas remarkable series of data visualizations as an inquiry into the botanical data of Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum

Irresponsible businesses including financial institutions are driving the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests, and the communities and biodiversity that rely on them

One hundred and eighty drawings of European forest trees and shrubs have been added to the WUR Image Collection Root System Drawings. The drawings depict 40 years of root system excavations in Europe

Suzanne Simard talks about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.

Fordaq manages the leading online market for more than 200,000 wood professionals (log producers, sawmills, veneer mills, panel producers, importers and large industrial users)

Teresa Castro's essay on the shift plants are seeing across different fields of knowledge and creation as they step out of the 'background'

Foresters tend to take a long-term view because trees take so long to grow. That may explain why foresters have led the way in developing the modern concept of sustainability

As wood is the only significant building material that is grown, we have a natural inclination that building in wood is good for the environment. But under what conditions is this really the case?

After years of community-led territorial mapping and frontlines organising, the Waorani people of Pastaza province have united to defend one of the last oil-free roadless areas of their ancestral territory