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Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism
Author | : Gregory Allen Barton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139434608 |
What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who celebrated a new class of government foresters as public heroes. Imperial foresters warned of impending catastrophe, desertification and global climate change if the reverse process of deforestation continued. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.
Empire of Timber
Author | : Erik Loomis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107125499 |
This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.
Seeds of Control
Author | : David Fedman |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295747471 |
Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea’s forest resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan’s imperial sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after 1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war. In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea—a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.” Drawing from sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green imperialism in Asia.
Empire of the Beetle
Author | : Andrew Nikiforuk |
Publisher | : Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-07-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1553658949 |
Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The beetle didn't act alone. Misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and a hundred years of fire suppression created a volatile geography that released the world's oldest forest manager from all natural constraints. Like most human empires, the beetles exploded wildly and then crashed, leaving in their wake grieving landowners, humbled scientists, hungry animals, and altered watersheds. Although climate change triggered this complex event, human arrogance assuredly set the table. With little warning, an ancient insect pointedly exposed the frailty of seemingly stable manmade landscapes. Drawing on first-hand accounts from entomologists, botanists, foresters, and rural residents, award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, investigates this unprecedented beetle plague, its startling implications, and the lessons it holds.
Forests Are Gold
Author | : Pamela D. McElwee |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 029580646X |
Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century—from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics—as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes. Forest policy has rarely been about ecology or conservation for nature’s sake, but about managing citizens and society, a process Pamela McElwee terms “environmental rule.” Untangling and understanding these practices and networks of rule illuminates not just thorny issues of environmental change, but also the birth of Vietnam itself.
Publications on Forestry, 1935-1940; an Annotated List, Including Reviews, Abstracts, and Other Information
Author | : United States. Forest Service. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
ISBN | : |