Unasylva - No. 149 - 1985: International year of the forest - Année internationale de la forêt - Año internacional del bosque













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Vol. 37
1985/3

An international journal of the forestry and food industries

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

ISSN 0041-6436

Editor
Robert Wazeka

Consulting Editor
Marcelle Biagini

Editorial Advisory Board
Forestry Department: J.E.M. Arnold (Chairman), B. Ben Salem, C. Chandrasekharan, A. Contreras, M.R. de Montalembert, B. Kyrklund, M.K. Muthoo, C. Palmberg, R.D. Pardo. R. Wazeka (Secretary)
Publications Division: K. Richmond (Editorial Branch)

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Editorial - International year of the forest

International year of the forest

FAO FORESTRY DEPARTMENT
Forestry and food security

FAO FORESTRY DEPARTMENT
Long-range air pollution: A threat to European forests

Jill Carr-Harris
Non-governmental organizations - Increasing NGO involvement in forestry: Some implications from Senegal

Egon Glesinger
The role of forestry

B.K. Steenberg
Forestry, the environment and the modern forester

Sir Henry Beresford-Peirse
The evolution of forestry: Latest trends in thinking

The world of forestry

Teaching social forestry
New Malaysian forestry strategy
Forestry and biotechnology
The multiple uses of Gliricidia sepium
US tree-planting increases
Forestation in Tibet
Irish-American agreement
Latin American news

Books

Forestry development needs
Managing forest industries
A quality wood
Tropical timbers
All about mangroves
Making scientific policy
Agriculturists look at forestry
Combining cork and fodder in the Mediterranean
African tree-planting guide
A book of timber samples

Environment

World industry discusses the environment
Wildlife management in Chile
Coffee and charcoal
Termite soil boosts crop yields
New data centre in Peru

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