Provides crucial information on the preparation for natural disasters striking urban forests in large cities and small communities. Describes three chronological action phases for natural disasters: 1. preparation (planning and warning activities), 2. response (immediate activity during and after natural disasters), and 3. recovery (activities to regain or improve upon pre-disaster conditions). Identifies the steps required to develop and implement plans in local communities. Black and white photos of disaster scenes and detailed plan guides.

This comprehensive text book on subjective forestry which is entitled as Forestry – A Subjective guide for IFS Aspirants to cater the needs of graduates of Forestry and other science and engineering graduates aspiring for the Indian Forest Service. The text is prepared in a form which is easy to follow and the main focus is on enabling the reader to understand and conceptualize the various aspects of Forestry to succeed in competitive examinations.

The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. Dependency on timber extraction and timber-related industries is no longer a universal characteristic of the forest community. Remoteness is also a less common feature, as technology, workforce mobility, tourism, and 'amenity migrants' increasingly connect rural to urban places.Forest Community Connections explores the responses of forest communities to a changing economy, changing federal policy, and concerns about forest health from both within and outside forest communities. Focusing primarily on the United States, the book examines the ways that social scientists work with communities-their role in facilitating social learning, informing policy decisions, and contributing to community well being. Bringing perspectives from sociology, anthropology, political science, and forestry, the authors review a range of management issues, including wildfire risk, forest restoration, labor force capacity, and the growing demand for a growing variety of forest goods and services. They examine the increasingly diverse aesthetic and cultural values that forest residents attribute to forests, the factors that contribute to strong and resilient connections between communities and forests, and consider a range of governance structures to positively influence the well being of forest communities and forests, including collaboration and community-based forestry.