An interest in forests raises a wide range of issues, from ecological to socio-economic and political. How do they function? Are they natural? What role do they play in environmental crises? What are they used for? What are primary forests? Is it possible and desirable to reconstitute one?…
Answering these questions is a necessity! Forests are essential to the cycle of life and provide many services: combating global warming, reducing the risk of disease, maintaining biodiversity, producing water and oxygen, providing food resources, and so on. It is essential to our health and that of our planet.
Since the 1990s, however, the world’s forests have been steadily shrinking, with dramatic consequences.
Drawing on the work of botanists, ecologists, geographers, philosophers, agronomists, naturalists and foresters, this book is as visual as it is educational.
