Essentials of Forestry Practice or Project Management Best Practices

Essentials of Forestry Practice

Author: Charles H Hatch Stoddard

Principles of forestry are introduced with emphasis on actual field practices, both traditional and modern. The fourth edition includes expanded treatments of small private forest owners, reflecting changing patterns in ownership; more informtion on new advances in timber volumes, growth, cut, and management; updated coverage of forest instruments; and more on pollution damage, reflecting current problems. Each significant field practice is illustrated with photos, drawings, and tables for easier comprehension.

Table of Contents:

The Forestry Challenge.
Forestry: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Characteristics and Growth Requirements of Forest Trees.
The Composition and Distribution of Forests.
Applying Silvicultural Systems.
Measuring the Forest.
Forest Management and Timber Production Finance.
Logging and Measuring Forest products.
Protecting Forests from Fire, Insects, and Diseases.
Processing and Marketing Forest Products.
Managing Forest Lands for other Purposes.
Organization and Administration of Forestry Programs.
Appendixes.
Index.

Interesting book:

Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence

Author: Harold Kerzner PhD

Best practices in the global market for successful project management

Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence presents unique, firsthand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations. This book is the global-perspective follow-up to Kerzner's bestselling Advanced Project Management: Best Practices on Implementation, Second Edition (0-471-47284-0).

Senior management from more than fifty global Fortune 500 companies-such as Computer Associates, Motorola, Johnson Controls, Nortel, Satyam, and Infosys-present their best practices in project management, including new and previously unpublished material. These industry leaders offer insight into best practices for:
* Project risk management
* Project management for multinational cultures and cultural failures
* Integrated and virtual project teams

Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence is a must-have resource for competitive corporate managers, project and team managers, engineers, project team members, and business consultants in today's global market.