"The Politics of the Conservation of Nature"
Commentary on the articles in this special issue of Environment and History, “Ecological Visionaries/Ecologised Visions.”
Commentary on the articles in this special issue of Environment and History, “Ecological Visionaries/Ecologised Visions.”
Carruthers explores the relevance of work conducted by James Stevenson-Hamilton, during his employment in the Sudan civil service, to the modern conservation doctrine of sustainable yield.
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…
After some years of absence, I found myself again active in the Australian conservation movement. A forest was to be razed, not far from where this is being written, for a relatively small yield of saw-planks…
This essay explores the progression of theoretical models and empirical research linked to the understanding of the capacity of forested systems to regulate the hydrological regimes of a given area.
Matagne examines French conservation policies in the 19th century with reference to three important issues: i) the protection of landscapes; ii) the protection of animal and vegetable species; and iii) nature conservation in the colonies.
Deforestation of mountain slopes in Java began to be perceived as a problem around 1850. This led to the establishment of a colonial Forest Service and, from c. 1890 onwards, to the creation of protected forests.
Sacred groves in the ancient Mediterranean are compared with surviving groves of South India, particularly Uttara Kannada, to evaluate the roles of these refugia in maintaining balance between human groups and the ecosystems of which they are part.