Trading Environments (eBook, ePUB)

Frontiers, Commercial Knowledge and Environmental Transformation, 1750-1990
Redaktion: Winder, Gordon M.; Dix, Andreas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the environmental effects and learning that plagued commercial projects in frontier projects. Including cases from Europe, the Americas, Oceania and Africa in the period between 1750 and 1990, it contributes to understanding of how environments are valued as they are traded in commercial systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317391616
• Artikelnr.: 44472790

Autorenporträt

Gordon M. Winder is Professor of Economic Geography and an Affiliated Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU-Munich. Andreas Dix is Professor for Historical Geography, Institute of Geography, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Trading Environments 1. Commercial Knowledge and
Environmental Transformation on and Through Frontiers Gordon M. Winder and
Andreas Dix 2. Consumption History and Changing Environments Andreas Dix
Frontier Environments 3. New Frontiers and Natural Resources in Southern
South America, c. 1820-1870: Examples from Northwest European Mercantile
Enterprise Stephen Bell 4. Opening Up Untouched Woodlands: Forestry Experts
Reflecting on and Driving the Timber Frontier in Northern Europe, 1880-1914
Christian Lotz Valuing Environments 5. Problems with Nature in the Trading
Environments of the McCormick Reaper, 1850-1902 Gordon M. Winder 6. Valuing
Wetlands and Peatlands: Mires in the Natural Resource and Land Use Policies
in the Nordic Countries from the Late 18th Century to the Present Day Esa
Ruuskanen 7. Lands for Settlement, Forests and Scenic Reserves: Nature and
Value in New Zealand, 1890s to 1920s Michael Roche 8. Reimagining the
Tropical Beef Frontier and the Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia
Shawn Van Ausdal Competing Modernist Logics 9. Industrializing Forests and
Naturalizing Industrialization: Forests, Pulp Wood and Environmental
Transformations, 1860-1930 Mathias Mutz 10. Trading Degradation for
Conservation: Revaluing Rural Landscapes in the American South Craig E.
Colten 11. Japan, Iceland and the Destruction of the American Fishing
Industry Carmel Finley Environmental Trading 12. Frontier Exchanges:
Commercial Calculation and Environmental Transformation Gordon M. Winder
and Andreas Dix