Gebundenes Buch

Managing Northern Europe's Forests

Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology

Herausgeber: Oosthoek, K. Jan; Hölzl, Richard

Beschreibung

First and only comprehensive collection of forest histories from the North of Europe Thorough and critical examination of a region where a number of distinguished and influential ideas of global resource management originated from (scientific forestry, sustainability, close-to-nature-forestry, forest preservation and conservation) Opening up a whole range of comparative units of study for a transnational history of forests and environment (knowledge transfer, state and institution building, social conflicts, imperialism, transformation of resource use) Provides comprehensive historical outlines infused with geographical, economic, ethnographic, ecological and forestry science perspectives

Autor

Richard Hölzl is a researcher for the German Science Foundation at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of a book on scientific forestry in Germany (Umkämpfte Wälder, 2010) and co-editor of a collection on the global history of missions (Mission Global, 2013). His article "Historicizing Sustainability" in Science as Culture was awarded the 2011 Best Article Prize by the European Society for Environmental History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 756g
• ISBN-13: 9781785336003
• ISBN-10: 1785336002
• Artikelnr.: 49022330