Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts
The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.
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Dragons with Clay Feet? Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam.
Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
"Environmental History in China"
Bao wrote this paper with a view to improving understanding and co-operation between Chinese and international environmental history studies.
"Histories of Protected Areas: Internationalisation of Conservationist Values and their Adoption in the Netherlands Indies (Indonesia)"
Based on a review of international conservation literature, three inter-related themes are explored: a) the emergence in the 1860–1910 period of new worldviews on the human-nature relationship in western culture; b) the emergence of new conservation values and the translation of these into public policy goals; and 3) the adoption of these policies by the Netherlands Indies government.
Mussolini Agricultural Act
Launch of a nationwide land reclamation campaign.
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Forest Survey in Saxe-Weimar
One of the first comprehensive forest surveys takes place in the duchy of Saxe-Weimar.
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Moser on Sustainable Forest Management
Wilhelm Gottfried Moser formulates the basic principle of “sustainable forest management.”
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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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Colbert's “L’ordonnance des eaux et forêts”
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV, oversees “L’ordonnance des eaux et forêts,” ushering in a new system of forest management.
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