Environmental Issues: Deforestation Book Project

Hannah Pilon Due Date Friday February 8, 2013 Winter Term Library duty assignment Deforestation Marcus, B. A. (2009). Tropical forests. (pp. 125-135). Sudbury, MA Jones and Bartlett Publishers. This chapter was precise illuminating and gave a lot of teaching ab f every(prenominal) out the reasons of deforestation. I knew that logging and agriculture were major causes of deforestation, but this chapter taught me that mining too is also a big factor. The agent was very knowledgeable about this subject and wrote in a government agency that was very easy to understand.This chapter also gave a very thorough description of the impacts of deforestation on the lands. Through this chapter, the author explains how just because a some trees be cut down, the water supply diminishes and can lead to drought as well as many different issues that I did non know about. This is probably my favourite source about this deforestation bother as it was easy to understand and the author did non drag out his writing and got to the point very quickly. It was a good read Forsyth, T. , & deoxyadenosine monophosphate Walker, A. (2008). Forest guardians, forest destroyers. (pp. 20-21).Seattle, Washington University of Washington Press. This is a short atom within a larger book, but just because it may be small does not mean that it is not informative. In this sh are, it was suggested that deforestation occurring in gold coast is leading to the expansions of savannahs. I believe that this is an important arm, as many do not realize that many African countries are also suffering from deforestation, which is depleting the lands, creating more savannahs and deserts. This section gave me further knowledge on the crisis of deforestation in Ghana and how it affects the people that live there.It explains how the soil is becoming depleted, which in the long term, will greatly effect the people living in these orbits. DeAth, C. , Michalenko, G. (1993). High technology and origi nal peoples The case of deforestation in Papua sunrise(prenominal) Guinea and Canada. In S. Rietbergen (Ed. ), The Eathscan reader in Tropical forestry (pp. 281-287). London Earthscan Publications Limited. This chapter is passing informative. Within pages 281-87, it explains how a Japanese paper company has gone into Papua unused Guinea and essentially destroyed the land.I show this section to be informative and eye opening because the Japanese company only sustainments about money, they are exploiting the land which leaves the workers and the native peoples that live in these areas to be left with basically nothing. Its amazing how much a culture can cypher on a forest and when it is gone how much their breeding has to lurch in order to survive. I have also come to witness that companies are causing a lot of deforestation from other countries, which plainly do not care about the locals at all.They only care about making money and for stick around about the human life tha t depends on the forest to survive. Avissar, R. , Ramos da Silva, R. , Werth, D. (2006). Impacts of tropical deforestation on regional and global hydroclimatology In W. F. Laurance C. A. Peres (Eds. ), Emerging Threats to Tropical Rainforests (pp. 73-75). Chicago, USA The University of Chicago Press. This section within the chapter went into detail about the global impacts of deforestation. It explained that how deforestation in the virago Rainforest effected the rainfall and precipitation in the United States.I found this to be extremely interesting how if one part of the world is alter it can, and will, affect another part of the world, which will greatly affect the other country. I learned a lot from this little section and the authors did a good job and explaining how this process works. I really enjoyed reading this section and I had no idea that deforestation in one area could affect another country so drastically. It is amazing how our world and ecosystems are all intertwi ned and how delicate each one is. Grieser Johns, A. (1997). Timber production and biodiversity saving in tropical rain forests. pp. 185-187). Cambridge, UK The Press Sydicate of the University of Cambridge. Throughout these pages, the issue of living organism extinction became a new issue that I knew was a case of deforestation, but for some reason had never occurred to me. This author explains that although at this piece a lot of rainforest animals are susceptible if change does not happen, many of these animals will become endangered, if not extinct. With a lot of species not discovered yet, there is no true knowledge of how many animals in these rainforests are already endangered and on their way to being an intellect species.The pages that I have used in this book were very informational and very eye opening. With so many innocent animals are being put up in danger everyday because of deforestation and its not just them any longer as plants are also in danger of becoming vulnerable and extinct. Mateiyenu Nanang, D. (2012). Plantations forestry in Ghana theory and applications. New York Nova Science Publishers. The author is very knowledgeable and this shows through in his writing. Although he puts a lot of graphs and charts, sometimes it was confusing trying to understand the point he was trying to get across.From what I did understand, he was talking about how the logging in Ghana has become a larger industry in the past fewer years than ever before. Because of this, Ghana is bestir oneselfing to already starting to determine the effects of deforestation. The author also went into detail about how they need to start replanting a lot more that they currently are because very in short they will be on the way to clearing out all of the trees that they have access too. Although this book was hard to understand at times, it was a very good resource and gave a lot of good information about deforestation in Ghana.