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Methods and approaches in forest history : report no. 3 of the IUFRO Task Force on Environmental Change /

This book presents edited and revised versions of 23 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 'Forest history: internation...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: History and Forest Resources
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Publishing, in association with The International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), 2000.
Series:IUFRO research series ; 3.
Subjects:
Forests and forestry > Congresses.
Forest ecology > Congresses.
Forest management > Congresses.
History and Biography.
Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology)
Forestry.
Forests.
History.
IUFRO.
Methodology.
Research.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the Development of Forest History Research / M. Agnoletti
  • Changing Roles of the Forest History Society : New Approaches to Environmental History in North America / S. Anderson
  • How Professional Historians Can Play a Useful Role in the Study of an Interdisciplinary Forest History / C. Ernst
  • Putting 'Flesh on the Carbon-Based Bones' of Forest History / M. Williams
  • Forest Management from Positivism to the Culture of Complexity / O. Ciancio and S. Nocentini
  • Economic Areas and Forest Nature : the Search for Forest Images and the Understanding of Nature in the Past / B. Selter
  • The Age and Size of Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) Stools of Nåtö Island, Åland Islands, SW Finland / C.-A. Hæggström
  • The Study of Charcoal-burning Sites in the Apennine Mountains of Liguria (NW Italy) as a Tool for Forest History / C. Montanari, P. Prono and S. Scipioni
  • Local Economic History, Environmental History and Forest History : Some Swedish Experiences and Suggestions / S. Gaunitz
  • Socioeconomical and Ecological Aspects of Coppice Woods History in the Lower Vosges (France) and the Black Forest (Germany) / R. Ostermann and A. Reif
  • The Forest History of Boreal Sweden : a Multidisciplinary Approach / L.Östlund and O. Zackrisson
  • Preindustrial Forests in Central Europe as Objects of Historical-Geographical Research / W. Schenk
  • Methods Towards Studying Historical Changes in Forest and Landscape Patterns : a Comparison between Two Nearby Socioeconomic Contexts / V. Robiglio
  • Temporal and Spatial Changes in a Boreal Forest Landscape : GIS Applications / A.-L. Axelsson
  • Comparing Damages : Italian and American Concepts of Restoration / M. Hall
  • Searching for Common Ground : Reconstructing Landscape History in East Africa's Eastern Arc Mountains / C.A. Conte
  • The 'Alnoculture' System in the Ligurian Eastern Apennines : Archive Evidence / S. Bertolotto and R. Cevasco
  • Between Nature and Culture : the Contribution of Anthropology to Environmental Study / P. Clemente, N. Breda andV. Lapiccirella-Zingari
  • Prehistoric Cultures and the Development ofWoodlands / H. Küster
  • Integration between Genetic and Archaeobotanical Data in a Study on the Evolutionary History of Pinus halepensis Mill. Populations in Southern Italy / S. Puglisi, G. Fiorentino, R. Lovreglio and V. Leone
  • Xylology and Forest History / E. Corona
  • Bristlecone Pines and Tales of Change in the Great Basin / M.P. Cohen
  • Biodiversity and Forest Management : From Biodiversity to Geochronodiversity / P. Arnould, M. Hotyat and L. Simon
  • Temporal Differences in Forest History at Two Sites in Eastern North America / G.B. Blank.

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