Forest history : international studies on socio-economic and forest ecosystem change : report no. 2 of the IUFRO Task Force on Environmental Change /

• Corporate Author: History and forest resources
• Format: eBook
• Language: English; French
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Publishing, in association with The International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), 2000.
• Series: IUFRO research series ; 2.
• Subjects: Forests and forestry > Congresses.; Forests and forestry > Congresses. > Social aspects; Forest ecology > Congresses.; History and Biography.; Laws and Regulations.; Forestry Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Forest Products and Industries (General); Biological Resources (Plant); Rural Sociology, (New March 2000); Plant Ecology.; Change.; Forest policy.; Forest products industries.; Forest resources.; Forestry.; Forestry law.; Forests.; History.; IUFRO.; Socioeconomics.; Electronic books.
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This book presents edited and revised versions of 31 papers selected from those presented at a major conference on 'History and forest resources', held in Florence, Italy, in 1998. It also includes an introduction by the first editor. The book is a companion volume to 'Methods and app...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Factors and Processes in the History of Forest Resources / Mauro Agnoletti
• Les Ressources Forestières et le Développement Economique de la Vallée Mosane du 11e au 17e Siècle d'après l'Étude du Trafìc Fluvial / M. Suttor
• 'The Coveted Tree' : the Industrial Threat to the Vosges Forest in the 16th and 18th Centuries / E. Garnier
• The War of the Plants : Botanical Exchange and Agricultural Conquest of the New World during Colonial Times / E. Amodio
• The Historic Evolution of the Haitian Forest / F. Hatzenberger
• Forests and Forestry Culture in Tuscany in the 18th and 19th Centuries / P. Nanni
• Earlier Images of the Amazon in the USA / L.F. Sedrez
• The Tree and the Machine : Manufacture, Communities and Institutions in the Woods of Southern Italy / M. Armiero
• The Muniellos Forests (Asturias, Spain) in History / J.P. Torrente
• Une Illusion Française : la Pénurie des Ressources Ligneuses, 1814-1914 / A. Corvol-Dessert
• Shortage of Wood? Towards a New Approach in Forest History : the Palatinate in the 19th Century / B.-S. Grewe
• Socio-economic Development and Changing Mental Concepts (Re)shaping the Woods in a German Region of Low Mountain Ranges : Contributions of a Study on a Regional Level to the Discussion of Major Issues of Forest History / G. Modert
• Historical Interactions Between Agricultural and Forest Utilization in the Austrian Alps and their Impact on the Present Forest Condition / E. Johann
• Exploiting the Last Phase of the North European Timber Frontier for the International Market 1890-1914 : an Economic-Historical Approach / J. Björklund
• 'Impossible' Roads and 'Inaccessible' Woods : Aspects and Problems of Wood Transport in the 18th Century, Southern Italy / M. Gangemi
• Parks, Plebs and the Picturesque : Sherwood Forest as a Contested Landscape in Later Georgian England, 1770-1830 / B. Cowell
• Social and Environmental Determining Factors of Forest Fire History : the Case of Eastern Andalusia, 1840-1890 / S. Cruz Artacho, M. González de Molina, M.N. Delgado and A. Ortega
• Common Woodlands in Mediterranean Societies : Commercial Management Versus Forms of Peasant Resistance in Andalusia (Spain), 1750-1930 / A.O. Santos
• Biodiversity Conservation in Central Himalaya : a People's Approach / A.S. Rawat
• People's Struggle Against the Institution of Royal Forest Reserves in England in the 11th-14th Centuries / J.J. Serovayskay
• In the Wood of Neglect / J. Dargavel
• Law, Forest Resources and Management of Territory in the Late Middle Ages : Woodlands in Tuscan Municipal Statutes / F. Salvestrini
• A Brief History of Forest Changes in the Sila Greca Mountains / M.A. Gallo and F. Iovino
• Economic Culture and Forest Policy in Italy, 1861-1915 / T. Raffaelli
• Forest Policy and Public Forest Production in Spain, 1855-1936 / D.G. Martínez, J.I.J. Blanco, J.A.S. Amarilla, J.F.Z. Pineda and S.Z. Blanco
• Economic Policy and Forest Resources in Spain : the Case of the Province of Pontevedra, 1926-1956 / E. Rico Boquete
• The Impact of Five Forest Commissions on the History and Practice of Forestry in British Columbia, Canada / P. Mitchell-Banks
• A Brief History of Italian Forest Policy / A.L. Freschi and L. Hermanin
• A History of the French Coniferous Forest / V. Moriniaux
• Imagining and Creating Forests in Britain, 1890-1939 / J. Tsouvalis and C. Watkins
• Some Aspects of Forest Management in Spain from the 16th to the 19th Century / C.M. Manuel
• The Impact of Economic, Social and Political Factors on the Ecology of Small English Woodlands : a Case Study of the Ancient Woods in South Yorkshire, England / I.D. Rotherham and M. Jones.