A trillion trees : restoring our forests by trusting in nature / Fred Pearce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearce, Fred, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest conservation.

Forest management--Environmental aspects.

Environmental protection.

Human-plant relationships.

environmental protection.

Physical Description:

335 pages : illustrations,map ; 24 cm

Edition:

North American edition.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver ; Berkeley ; London : Greystone Books, 2022.

Summary:

"Natural history and adventure travel collide in this powerful book about the decline and recovery of the world's forests--with a provocative argument for their survival. In A Trillion Trees, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce takes readers on a whirlwind journey through some of the most spectacular forests around the world. Along the way, he charts the extraordinary pace of forest destruction, and explores why some are beginning to recover. With vivid, observant reporting, Pearce transports readers to the remote cloud forests of Ecuador, the swamps of Indonesia, the remains of a forest civilization in Nigeria, a mystifying mountain peak in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. And he interviews the people who traditionally live and depend on these lands: Indigenous Amazonians, Nepalese hill dwellers, Kenyan farmers, and West African sawyers. They show him that forests are as much human landscapes as they are natural paradises. The lives of humans are now imprinted in forest ecology. At the heart of Pearce's investigation is a provocative argument: planting more trees isn't the answer to declining forests. If given room and left to their own devices, forests and the people who live in them will fight back to restore their own domain."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I WEATHER MAKERS

1. Trees Are Cool Stomata, Transpiration and a Planet Transformed

2. Flying Rivers Chasing the Rain and Mapping a New Hydrology

3. Forests' Breath Sniffing the Air and Shooting the Breeze

4. In Tanguro Tipping Points in Soybean Fields Foreshadow Crisis in the Amazon

5. Fires in the Forest Nature's Way of Starting Over

pt. II FROM PARADISE TO PLUNDER

6. Lost Worlds Pre-Columbian Cities That Gardened the Rainforests

7. The Woodchopper's Ball Post-Columbian Pillage and Roads to Ruin

8. Logged Out Well, Almost Three Decades in Borneo

9. Consuming the Forests Logs of War and a New "Green" Plunder

10. No-Man's-Land Cattle Kingdoms and the Tyranny of Global Commodities

11. Taking Stock Phantom Forests and Debunking Forest Demonology

pt. III REWILDING

12. From "Stumps and Ashes" America's Forest Renaissance

13. The Strange Regreening of Europe Acid Rain to a New Green Deal

14. Forest Transition How More and More Nations Are Restoring Their Forests

15. To Plant or Not to Plant When Trees Become Part of the Problem

16. Let Them Grow Only Nature Can Plant a Trillion Trees

17. Agroforests Farmers as Part of the Solution

pt. IV FOREST COMMONS

18. Indigenous Defenders Why Tribes Do Conservation Better Than Conservationists

19. Community Forests A Triumph of the Commons

20. African Landscapes Taking Back Control.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books in 2021"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-314) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pearce, Fred. Trillion trees.

ISBN:

9781771649407

1771649402

OCLC:

1291282370

Publisher Number:

99992336540