Description
This book presents edited and revised versions of more than 30 papers selected from those presented at a major conference on History and Forest Resources, held in Florence in 1998. The conference was organised by the Italian Academy of Forestry Science and working group on Forest History of the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO). As a whole the papers present detailed analyses of the interrelationships between forest ecosystems and socioeconomic development from thirteen different countries of the world. Main economic and social factors, techniques and local practices, as well as legal and political aspects related to forest changes are discussed, according to the latest achievements in forest history research. The book is a companion volume to Methods and Approaches in Forest History.
Chapter
1 Les Ressources Forestières et le Développement Economique de la Vallée Mosane du 11e au 17e Siècle d’après l’Étude du Trafic Fluvial
2 ‘The Coveted Tree’: the Industrial Threat to the Vosges Forest in the 16th and 18th Centuries
3 The War of the Plants: Botanical Exchange and Agricultural Conquest of the New World during Colonial Times
4 The Historic Evolution of the Haitian Forest
5 Forests and Forestry Culture in Tuscany in the 18th and 19th Centuries
6 Earlier Images of the Amazon in the USA
7 The Tree and the Machine: Manufacture, Communities and Institutions in the Woods of Southern Italy
8 The Muniellos Forests (Asturias, Spain) in History
9 Une Illusion Française: la Pénurie des Ressources Ligneuses, 1814–1914
10 Shortage of Wood? Towards a New Approach in Forest History: the Palatinate in the 19th Century
11 Socio-economic Development and Changing Mental Concepts (Re)shaping the Woods in a German Region of Low Mountain Ranges: Contributions of a Study on a Regional Level to the Discussion of Major Issues of Forest History
12 Historical Interactions Between Agricultural and Forest Utilization in the Austrian Alps and Their Impact on the Present Forest Condition
13 Exploiting the Last Phase of the North European Timber Frontier for the International Market 1890–1914: an Economic–Historical Approach
14 ‘Impossible’ Roads and ‘Inaccessible’ Woods: Aspects and Problems of Wood Transport in the 18th Century, Southern Italy
16 Social and Environmental Determining Factors of Forest Fire History: the Case of Eastern Andalusia, 1840–1890
17 Common Woodlands in Mediterranean Societies: Commercial Management Versus Forms of Peasant Resistance in Andalusia (Spain), 1750–1930
18 Biodiversity Conservation in Central Himalaya: a People’s Approach
19 People’s Struggle Against the Institution of Royal Forest Reserves in England in the 11th–14th Centuries
20 In the Wood of Neglect
21 Law, Forest Resources and Management of Territory in the Late Middle Ages: Woodlands in Tuscan Municipal Statutes
22 A Brief History of Forest Changes in the Sila Greca Mountains
23 Economic Culture and Forest Policy in Italy, 1861–1915
24 Forest Policy and Public Forest Production in Spain, 1855–1936
25 Economic Policy and Forest Resources in Spain: the Case of the Province of Pontevedra, 1926–1956
26 The Impact of Five Forest Commissions on the History and Practice of Forestry in British Columbia, Canada
27 A Brief History of Italian Forest Policy
28 A History of the French Coniferous Forest
29 Imagining and Creating Forests in Britain, 1890–1939
30 Some Aspects of Forest Management in Spain from the 16th to the 19th Century
31 The Impact of Economic, Social and Political Factors on the Ecology of Small English Woodlands: a Case Study of the Ancient Woods in South Yorkshire, England
Forest History
：International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change
( IUFRO Research Series. 2 )
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