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Managing Northern Europe's Forests: Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology / Edition 1

Managing Northern Europe's Forests: Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology / Edition 1

Managing Northern Europe's Forests: Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
1785336002
ISBN-13:
9781785336003
Pub. Date:
02/19/2018
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
ISBN-10:
1785336002
ISBN-13:
9781785336003
Pub. Date:
02/19/2018
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Managing Northern Europe's Forests: Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology / Edition 1

Managing Northern Europe's Forests: Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology / Edition 1

Overview

Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region’s woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters, the contributors to this volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present. Each explores the complex interrelationships of state-building, resource management, knowledge transfer, and trade over a period characterized by ongoing modernization and evolving environmental awareness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785336003
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 02/19/2018
Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives , #12
Pages: 420
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

K. Jan Oosthoek is an environmental historian and education specialist in the humanities based in Brisbane, Australia. He is author of Conquering the Highlands: A History of the Afforestation of the Scottish Uplands (2013). He has also served as vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History (2005–2007) and manages the website ‘Environmental History Resources’ (www.eh-resources.org).


Richard Hölzl is a provenance researcher at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich and teaches Modern History at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of books on nineteeth-century scientific forestry in Germany (Umkämpfte Wälder, 2010) and on Catholic missions in colonial East Africa (Gläubige Imperialisten, 2021).

Table of Contents

List of tables, maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: State Forestry in Northern Europe
Richard Hölzl and K. Jan Oosthoek

Chapter 1. Forestry in Germany, c1550-2000
Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Richard Hölzl

Chapter 2. State Forestry in the Netherlands: from Liberalism to Nature Creation
K. Jan Oosthoek

Chapter 3. State forestry in Belgium since the End of the Eighteenth Century
Pierre-Alain Tallier, Hilde Verboven, Kris Vandekerkhove, Hans Baeté and Kris Verheyen

Chapter 4. Origins and Development of State Forestry in the United Kingdom
K. Jan Oosthoek

Chapter 5. State and Forestry in Denmark from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Bo Fritzbøger

Chapter 6. State Forestry in Norway
Lars Helge Frivold and Asbjørn Svendsrud

Chapter 7. Swedish State Forestry, 1790-2000
Per Eliasson and Erik Törnlund

Chapter 8. Finnish Forestry in a Long-Term Perspective
Heikki Roiko-Jokela

Chapter 9. The History of State Forests and Forestry in Poland
Anna Majchrowska

Conclusion: National Histories, Shared Legacies: State Forestry in Northern Europe in Comparison
Richard Hölzl and K. Jan Oosthoek

Glossary of terms
Index

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