"Histories of Forestry: Ideas, Networks and Silences"
This article compares Australian and Canadian forestry histories, with particular reference to New South Wales and British Columbia respectively.
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"The Coming of Age to Australian Forests"
This paper examines age as a parameter in colonial and recent science. It then recounts attempts to impose an ordered progression of age classes on the forests of Victoria and Queensland according to the classical principles of forestry transmuted through an imperial model.
"Forest Rights, Privileges and Prohibitions: Contextualising State Forestry Policy in Colonial Tanganyika"
This paper analyses the development of state forest management in Tanganyika and its effects on African access and use rights within the larger context of British colonial governance.
"Colonialism and Professionalism: A German Forester in India"
Professional German foresters played an important role in shaping the course of forest management in India during the last century. It is to Sir Dietrich Brandis that the credit for the introduction of scientific methods of management is given…
"Wood and Forestry in German History: In Quest of an Environmental Approach"
The author discusses some conceptual problems of environmental history and their effect upon historiographical practice, with special reference to several open questions of German forest history.
"Reading Forest History Backwards: Guinea's Forest-Savanna Mosaic, 1893–1993"
Sophisticated local agricultural and forest management techniques have underlain the creation and maintenance of the main landscape features in Kissidougou Prefecture of Guinea’s forest-savanna transition zone…
Glesinger’s The Coming Age of Wood
Egon Glesinger publishes his study on the global importance of wood as a raw material.
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World's First Forestry School
The world’s first forestry school, located in the Saxon city of Tharandt, attracts students from all over Europe.
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Dauerwaldmodell for forests as a “rotating system”
The model calls for the inclusion of diverse plant species at various stages of growth in forests with a view to reproducing the conditions of an indigenous forest.
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Hans Carl von Carlowitz and “Sustainability”
In Sylvicultura Oeconomica, written in response to the widespread scarcity of wood throughout Europe, Hans Carl von Carlowitz summarizes extant forestry knowledge and supplements it with his own observations.
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