Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World

2020 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award

During the nineteenth century, the development and codification of forest science in France were closely linked to Provence’s time-honored tradition of mobile pastoralism, which formed a major part of the economy. At the beginning of the century, pastoralism also featured prominently in the economies and social traditions of North Africa and southwestern Anatolia until French forest agents implemented ideas and practices for forest management in these area...