The Subterranean Forest: Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution
The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.
The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of nontimber forest products (NTFPs) in the United States, illustrating their diverse importance, describing the people who harvest them, and outlining the steps that are being taken to ensure access to them.
Examines the development of woodland ownership in Denmark from the Middle Ages to the first half of the nineteenth century.
Managing the Unknown offers essays that show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress. This volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
Beschädigte Vegetation und sterbender Wald traces the history of the environmental problem of air pollution and its damaging effects on forests in Germany.
Excerpt from The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps.
Across eleven chapters, the contributors to this edited volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present.
Volume 1 of 3 of A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
Spanish translation of chapter 1 from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.