Management Of Crown Forests At The Cape Of Good Hope Under The Old Regime And Under The New
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Management of Crown Forests at the Cape of Good Hope Under the Old Regime
Author | : John Croumbie Brown |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781021963635 |
This detailed study examines the history of the management of Crown forests at the Cape of Good Hope during the 18th and 19th centuries. Drawing on a wide range of historical documents, John Croumbie Brown provides a comprehensive overview of the policies and practices that shaped the forestry industry in this unique colonial context. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the environmental history of South Africa and the history of resource management. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author | : State Library of Massachusetts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1206 |
Release | : 1886 |
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Modernizing Nature
Author | : S. Ravi Rajan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199277966 |
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The Rise of Conservation in South Africa
Author | : William Beinart |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199541221 |
A major contribution to the environmental history of settler societies, William Beinart's innovative study analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa, examining them as a response to the rapid transformation of natural pastures brought about as the Cape became a major exporter of wool.
The Arid Lands
Author | : Diana K. Davis |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2016-03-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0262333546 |
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book, Diana Davis argues that estimates of desertification have been significantly exaggerated and that deserts and drylands—which constitute about 41% of the earth's landmass—are actually resilient and biodiverse environments in which a great many indigenous people have long lived sustainably. Meanwhile, contemporary arid lands development programs and anti-desertification efforts have met with little success. As Davis explains, these environments are not governed by the equilibrium ecological dynamics that apply in most other regions. Davis shows that our notion of the arid lands as wastelands derives largely from politically motivated Anglo-European colonial assumptions that these regions had been laid waste by “traditional” uses of the land. Unfortunately, such assumptions still frequently inform policy. Drawing on political ecology and environmental history, Davis traces changes in our understanding of deserts, from the benign views of the classical era to Christian associations of the desert with sinful activities to later (neo)colonial assumptions of destruction. She further explains how our thinking about deserts is problematically related to our conceptions of forests and desiccation. Davis concludes that a new understanding of the arid lands as healthy, natural, but variable ecosystems that do not necessarily need improvement or development will facilitate a more sustainable future for the world's magnificent drylands.
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Author | : Bernard Quaritch (Firm) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1062 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Antiquarian booksellers |
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