Tropical Forest Scientist:
Francis S.P. Ng and FRIM 1964–1991 |
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Francis SP Ng |
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Order Code: FRANCIS
RM30/USD18
(postage not included)
200 pp
2018
ISBN 978-967-2149-07-1
Trees are the largest, longest-lived
and least understood of living things. The author led a scientific effort to
document the 2830 species of trees of Peninsular Malaysia and carried out
wide-ranging and unprecedented explorations on the growth, development and
reproduction of tropical trees and forests. This book provides an integrated,
comprehensive and otherwise unavailable overview of tropical trees and
forests, and concise explanations of issues and concepts in tropical forest
management. This memoir is also about
science in an ethnically and culturally complex developing country, from
colonial handover, through a national Emergency, a hostile Confrontation with
a neighbouring country and the separation of one of its component states.
During this turbulent period, scientific research was done mostly in
Government Research Institutes. It provides an inside view of one such
Institute, and offers critical evaluations of scientific issues, research
strategy, productivity, policy and organization at the individual,
institutional and national levels. Read
Review
1 published in Gardens’ Bulletin
Singapore 2018. 70(1): 259 Review 2 published in HUNTIA—A Journal of Botanical
History 2019. Book review 17(2): 158–159. |
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