An American Forestry School

The American School in London

On the walls of the Museum there hangs a picture symbolic of one of the strangest phenomena in the history of modern art. It shows five painters gathered in a studio. One is commenting on a drawing by a second, while the other three look up from their work to listen. Painted in London during 1765 by the Pennsylvaniaborn portraitist Matthew Pratt, the canvas was exhibited a year later at the Soc...

Plantation forestry: an analysis of the domain

Plantation forests the world over have been established in order to supply industrial mills with wood. It is estimated that by 2050, over half of the world’s requirements for industrial timber could be supplied from plantations, thus reducing the pressure on natural forests. Ensuring that the plantation, with its many stands, different planted species, terrains, etc., delivers the correct volum...

Urban Forestry Research in Europe: an Overview

Forestry as an Entry Point for Governance Reform - Specialist Series - Forestry Briefing

Tropical forests have been the object of intensive donor support for the last 15-20 years. Particularly striking is the way in which forestry has figured as a vehicle for wider environmental concerns, and has given them concrete expression. Early on, the focus was mainly on resource depletion (the threat of desertification, the fuelwood crisis, etc.) and on ways to rebuild tree stocks through p...

efl home literacy practices of iranian middle school students: an ethnography

موضوع آموزش زبان انگلیسی و کسب مهارت در آن همواره مورد توجه کارشناسان، خانواده ها و معلمان قرار داشته است. امروزه این مهم، با گسترش نیازها و تنوع کاربرد های آن، بیش از هر زمان دیگری به مطالعه و تحلیل نیاز دارد. بر اساس یک رویکرد فرهنگی- اجتماعی به آموزش و سواد، این مطالعه کیفی در پی آن است تا با شیوه قوم نگاری((ethnography، توصیف و تحلیلی از مجموعه فعالیت های آموزشی در خانه( (home literacy ...