Author: Bernhard Eduard Fernow
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Category : Forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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A Brief History of Forestry in Europe
Author: Bernhard Eduard Fernow
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Category : Forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Publisher:
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Category : Forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior
Author: United States. Dept. of the Interior
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Deforesting the Earth
Author: Michael Williams
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226899268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Since humans first appeared on the earth, we've been cutting down trees for fuel and shelter. Indeed, the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests are among the most important ways humans have transformed the global environment. With the onset of industrialization and colonization the process has accelerated, as agriculture, metal smelting, trade, war, territorial expansion, and even cultural aversion to forests have all taken their toll. Michael Williams surveys ten thousand years of history to trace how, why, and when human-induced deforestation has shaped economies, societies, and landscapes around the world. Beginning with the return of the forests to Europe, North America, and the tropics after the Ice Ages, Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic through the classical world and the Middle Ages. He then continues the story from the 1500s to the early 1900s, focusing on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, in such places as the New World and India, China, Japan, and Latin America. Finally, he covers the present-day and alarming escalation of deforestation, with the ever-increasing human population placing a possibly unsupportable burden on the world's forests. Accessible and nonsensationalist, Deforesting the Earth provides the historical and geographical background we need for a deeper understanding of deforestation's tremendous impact on the environment and the people who inhabit it.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226899268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Since humans first appeared on the earth, we've been cutting down trees for fuel and shelter. Indeed, the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests are among the most important ways humans have transformed the global environment. With the onset of industrialization and colonization the process has accelerated, as agriculture, metal smelting, trade, war, territorial expansion, and even cultural aversion to forests have all taken their toll. Michael Williams surveys ten thousand years of history to trace how, why, and when human-induced deforestation has shaped economies, societies, and landscapes around the world. Beginning with the return of the forests to Europe, North America, and the tropics after the Ice Ages, Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic through the classical world and the Middle Ages. He then continues the story from the 1500s to the early 1900s, focusing on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, in such places as the New World and India, China, Japan, and Latin America. Finally, he covers the present-day and alarming escalation of deforestation, with the ever-increasing human population placing a possibly unsupportable burden on the world's forests. Accessible and nonsensationalist, Deforesting the Earth provides the historical and geographical background we need for a deeper understanding of deforestation's tremendous impact on the environment and the people who inhabit it.
American Agriculturist
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Crimes Against Nature
Author: Karl Jacoby
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"This insightful and lucid book combines social with environmental history, enriching both. . . . Timely, eloquent, and provocative, Crimes against Nature illuminates contemporary struggles, especially in the West, over our environment."--Alan Taylor, author of William Cooper's Town "A compelling new interpretation of early conservation history in the United States. . . . Powerfully argued and beautifully written, this book could hardly be more relevant to the environmental challenges we face today."--William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West "What a powerful and yet subtle tale of the fraught encounter between the conservationists' desire to 'engineer' wilderness with the property regime of the modern state and the unique, local, 'moral ecologies' of those who resisted! Rarely has this level of originality, close reasoning, and historical texture been brought into such harmony while preserving the whiff of lived experience."--James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"This insightful and lucid book combines social with environmental history, enriching both. . . . Timely, eloquent, and provocative, Crimes against Nature illuminates contemporary struggles, especially in the West, over our environment."--Alan Taylor, author of William Cooper's Town "A compelling new interpretation of early conservation history in the United States. . . . Powerfully argued and beautifully written, this book could hardly be more relevant to the environmental challenges we face today."--William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West "What a powerful and yet subtle tale of the fraught encounter between the conservationists' desire to 'engineer' wilderness with the property regime of the modern state and the unique, local, 'moral ecologies' of those who resisted! Rarely has this level of originality, close reasoning, and historical texture been brought into such harmony while preserving the whiff of lived experience."--James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State
Guide to Reprints
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Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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Guide to Microforms in Print
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Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1896
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Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1896
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Garden and Forest
Author: Charles Sprague Sargent
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A journal of horticulture, landscape art, and forestry.
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A journal of horticulture, landscape art, and forestry.
National Agricultural Library Catalog
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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General Technical Report RM.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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