Forests And Forestry In China
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Author | : Meng Zhang |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295748885 |
In the Qing period (1644–1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. She documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, she considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development.
Author | : Tao-yang Ling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stanley Dennis Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Details the socio-political effects of forestry in China in recent decades and forestry's importance to China's future. Included is a comprehensive look at harvesting, sawmilling, tariffs and foreign exchange, pulp and paper production, seed collection, urban forestry, and soil erosion. Shows how the Chinese people are attempting to solve their problems and become self-sufficient in areas of industrial timber and fuelwood.
Author | : William F. Hyde |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1317368592 |
Forestry and Forest Policy are key issues for the protection of China’s natural environment and for its continued economic development. Originally published in 2003, the contributors to this title review the successes of China’s forest policies and the growth of its forests over the past quarter-century and examine the challenges facing China’s forests and rural environment. China’s Forests: Global Lessons from Market Reforms is a valuable resource for students interested in environmental studies, international forest policy, and the modern development of China.
Author | : N. Menzies |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1994-09-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230372872 |
Although China is generally considered to have suffered continuous deforestation over most of its history, forests were protected or even planted and maintained for centuries in some places. This study identifies six such cases. It uses historical evidence to show that individuals and communities act to manage resources sustainably for a number of reasons including economic benefit, religious or symbolic purposes, and that sustainability of the management system depends on the form of control exerted over the resource.
Author | : Stanley Dennis Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Forest management |
ISBN | : 9781559630221 |
Details the socio-political effects of forestry in China in recent decades and forestry's importance to China's future. Included is a comprehensive look at harvesting, sawmilling, tariffs and foreign exchange, pulp and paper production, seed collection, urban forestry, and soil erosion. Shows how the Chinese people are attempting to solve their problems and become self-sufficient in areas of industrial timber and fuelwood.
Author | : Norman Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Forests and forestry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stanley Dennis Richardson |
Publisher | : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, c1966 . |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2021-02-26 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9251339325 |
The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the changes witnessed in the forest sector in China during the last three decades and the key drivers that have contributed to the country’s forest transition. Clearly, such a transition is an outcome of the convergence of several factors, including the emergence of China as an industrial economy, clear and consistent policies, tenure reforms, investment in key forestry programmes, and strengthening science and technology capabilities. The paper also provides an indication of the emerging challenges, including the larger uncertainties stemming from inward-looking policies and the outbreak of global pandemics and crises. This study on forest transition in China will provide valuable insights into what is required to build and sustainably manage forest capital in order to meet the needs and aspirations of all stakeholders, whether global, national or local.
Author | : Jirí Kolbek |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2003-08-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781402013706 |
When two of us (Jifi Kolbek, Miroslav Sriltek) were working in North Korea on the Czech Slovak field expeditions of the early 1990s, we did not think initially of comparing our results with the vegetation of surrounding areas or of writing a book. Our efforts mainly involved observing and documenting the vegetation as completely as possible and initial recognition of vegetation units. At first we focused on the most obvious vegetation types, but eventually also any important types that we could discern. Later we focused more on forests, since almost ali of northeastern Asia has forest potential and forests stiH do form the landscape matrix in most areas. First we studied suburban woods and forests, most of which are strongly affected by human activities. Later, though, we also had chances to visit and study lovely mountain regions, including Myohyang-san, Kumgang-san, Su jang-san, and the high, especially beautiful Changbai-shan on the border between North Korea and China. The Changbai-shan is the highest mountain system in the Korean Peninsula, including the highest peak Paektu-san. We gradually changed our goal from an evaluation of forest data from North Korea to comparison with available field data and literature sources from comparable surrounding areas. These include South Korea, the Russian Far East, northeastern China (Manchuria), and northem Japan, including the Kuril Islands. Finally we decided to prepare a preliminary survey of the forest vegetation of the Russian Far East and eventually of aII of northeastem Asia, which would be published in English.