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Title
Crying forests : political ecology in the DPRK / Liu Jinlong.
ISBN
9789811697258 (electronic bk.)
9811697256 (electronic bk.)
9811697248
9789811697241
Publication Details
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 188 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-9725-8 doi
Call Number
SD235.K7
Dewey Decimal Classification
634.9095193
Summary
This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis on social, economic, and political issues to understand why Forests in the Democratic People's Republic of Korean have been so severely deforested. Deforestation and forest degradation issues in the DPRK has been highlighted as an important international political issue, which has been intervening with food security issues and energy issues, and it's hard to discover the way out. The DPRK provides a unique case to international community that illustrate why the forests issue is so complex, illuminating the issues of declining forest coverage that beset developing nations around the world. This book will interest political scientists, conservation ecologists, and journalists. Liu Jinlong is a professor at Renmin University of China's School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, and Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO's Forest Policy and Economic Division.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 7, 2022).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789811697241
Chapter 1. Preface
Chapter 2. Physical, Economic and Institutional Setting
Chapter 3. Major Environmental Issues
Chapter 4. Land Use and Land Use Change
Chapter 5. Forests and Forestry in the DPRK
Chapter 6. Change of Forest Cover and Quality
Chapter 7. History of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the DPRK
Chapter 8. Afforestation and Reforestation
Chapter 9. Agroforestry Development in the DPRK
Chapter 10. From Afforestation to Forest Landscape Restoration in the DPRK: Gaps and Challenges
Chapter 11. Forests, Energy, Food and Politics.
