The second part of this two-part paper looks at the influence on forestry of knowledge and management practices exchanged through professional-scientific networks.
Rhododendron ponticum is the most expensive alien plant conservation problem in Britain and Ireland.
The paper reviews the changes that have taken place in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen with regard to the hima—a reserved pasture, where trees and grazing lands are protected from indiscriminate harvest on a temporary or permanent basis.
This two-part paper examines the origins, spread, and practices of professional forestry in Southeast Asia, focusing on key sites in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
While the evolution of community wildlife conservation in the country from the late 1970s tends to be portrayed as a programme without antecedents, this paper demonstrates that attempts to involve Africans in wildlife conservation in Kenya have a long history.
Chiarappa, Michael J. “Overseeing the Family of Whitefishes: The Priorities and Debates of Coregonid Management on America’s Great Lakes, 1870–2000.” Environment and History 11, no.2 (May, 2005): 163–94. doi:10.3197/096734005774434566.
The High Coast in north-eastern Sweden has become a popular tourist site annually attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from throughout the world. Its environment is not only considered pleasing from a recreational aspect, but also of extraordinary intrinsic value.
This paper argues that far from having been an empty space, much of the area currently devoted to tourism once played an important role within global markets, especially through the production of dyewoods, chicle (the original raw material for chewing gum), and other natural resources.
This paper examines the important and pioneering role played by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, a Scottish medical surgeon, in the implementation of forest conservancy in colonial India.
This paper shows how the story of Alpine milk illustrates that in premodern times food production reflected much more the connection between local land resources and farmer’s skills, tools, and practices—a link that has ceased to exist in the mindset of industrialised societies.
