W Scott Prudham

Knock on Wood

Nature as Commodity in Douglas-Fir Country

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Produktbeschreibung

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Prudham employs a political economic approach to explain the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry's presence in the region. As well, he provides a thorough accounting of the timber industry itself, tracing its motivations, practices, and labor relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780415944021
• ISBN-10: 0415944023
• Artikelnr.: 22118691

Autorenporträt

Scott Prudham is an assistant professor in the geography department at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1 The Political Economy of an Ecological Crisis 2 Working
the Land: Production Relations in Logging and Reforestation 3 Industrial
Ecologies and Regional Geographies 4 Geographies of Scale and Scope in
Lumbering 5 Toward Organic Machines: The Historical Political Economy of
Douglas-Fir Tree Improvement 6 Timber and Down: The Rise and Fall of
Sustained Yield Regulation in Oregon's Illinois Valley 7 Epilogue: Owls,
Ecosystems, and the New Forestry