Forest Conservation

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how forests around the world provide habitats for animals, oxygen for the air that is breathed and wood for needed building supplies. The paper asserts that the forest loss is already having a significant negative impact on the global environmental, social and economic issues. The paper shows the importance of researching and designing a forest conservation program that will reverse the current downward spiral of the future of the world's trees. This proposal hypothesizes that with education of the general public, forest conservation can be dramatically increased.

Outline:
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Limitations
Conclusion
Timeline

From the Paper:

"To date an estimated 50 percent of the world's forests no longer exist. Each year mankind loses another 40 million acres to use, progress, fires and disease. The forest loss is already having a significant negative impact on the global issues surrounding environmental, social and economic issues."
""Until recently most forest loss occurred in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and temperate North America; between 1960 and 1990 one-fifth of all tropical forest cover was lost(Falconer, 1998).""

Sample of Sources Used:

• American Journal of Agricultural Economics; 2/1/2002; Schipper, Robert A.
• Local struggles over rain-forest conservation in Alaska and Amazonia.The Geographical Review; 7/1/1996; Whitesell, Edward A.
• Using habitat conservation plans to implement the Endangered Species Act in Pacific Coast forests: common problems and promising precedents.(Symposium on Habitat Conservation Plans)Environmental Law; 9/22/1997; Hall, Daniel A.
• War and Tropical Forests: Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict. Environmental Health Perspectives; 5/1/2004; Raven, Peter H.
• Arrow, K.J., and A.C. Fisher. "Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty and Irreversibility." Quart. J. Econ. 88(May 1974):312-19.

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