"Editorial" for Environment and History 4, no.2, Australia special issue (June, 1998)
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…
In this article, which considers the settlement of the high-rainfall forests of Eastern Australia, it is argued that the main pests were indigenous not exotic.
During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…
The general view in Swedish historiography of an inherent conflict between iron-making and the practice of slash-and-burn is questioned on the basis of this palaeoecological case study of repeated slash-and-burn cultivation from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries in a mining district of central Sweden.
From travellers’ accounts, Duarte discusses the conditions of exploration, and some aspects of the historical changes that took place in the territory.
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.
The second part of this two-part paper looks at the influence on forestry of knowledge and management practices exchanged through professional-scientific networks.
In this study, the history of traditional non-timber forest uses is reconstructed by combining the analysis of forest management plans and the results from oral history interviews.
The forces that started formal forestry education in Australia and New Zealand from 1910 and 1924 respectively are traced.
Professional forest management in the Philippines is largely attributed to the ideas and endeavours of American foresters such as Gifford Pinchot, George Ahern and Henry Graves who were instrumental in establishing the Insular Bureau of Forestry in 1900 and in passing the forestry laws of 1904 and 1905.