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"Tree Planting in Canterbury, New Zealand, 1850–1910"
This paper looks at early experimentation with tree planting in Canterbury and its encouragement, which predated attempts elsewhere in New Zealand.
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"Fighting With a Weed: Water Hyacinth and the State in Colonial Bengal, c. 1910–1947"
This essay explores the dynamics of failure to strike a solution to the problem of invasive species in the form of water hyacinth through an examination of the competing domains of bureaucracy, science and private commercial interests in a colonial context.
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"Contestation over Resources: The Farmer-Miner Dispute in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1903–1939"
This study argues that when farmers raised concerns about miners’ activities, ‘precautionary stewardship’ of the environment designed to stop entrepreneurial practices harmful to the environment was not a concern. This was a struggle over the ownership of the means of production by two competing forms of capitalism—a characteristic intra-class as well as intra-racial conflict.
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"An Imperial, National and State Debate: The Rise and Near Fall of the Australian Forestry School, 1927–1945"
This article traces contentious debates throughout the years leading up to and following the creation of the Australian Forestry School, between and among leading foresters throughout the British Empire born outside of Australia on the one hand, and, on the other, professionally trained foresters and Australian politicians who had been born in Australia.
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"'A Network of Trust': Measuring and Monitoring Air Pollution in British Cities, 1912–1960"
This paper explores how an expert body, The Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution, was established in the face of different interests and agendas, the importance (and difficulties) of technical standard-setting with reference to environmental pollution, and, finally, the uses of environmental monitoring.
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"Campaigning for Street Trees, Sydney Botanic Gardens, 1890s–1920s"
Between the 1890s and 1920s street trees became a more prominent feature in streetscapes across New South Wales, Australia.
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"The Fall and Fall in the Legal Status of Mustelids in New Zealand"
Three species of the family Mustelidae (stoats, weasels and ferrets) were initially introduced into New Zealand (and granted statutory protection) in an attempt to control a burgeoning rabbit population…
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"Breaking New Ground? Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of 'Empire Forestry' in the Philippines, 1900–1905"
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.
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"Brazilian Federal Conservation Units: A Historical Overview of their Creation and of their Current Status"
This paper provides a historical overview of the formation of the system of federal conservation units existent in Brazil as of 2006 and examines selected aspects of their current status.
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"Agrarian Change, Cattle Ranching and Deforestation: Assessing their Linkages in Southern Pará"
In this paper, Pacheco illustrates the dynamics of frontier development in the Redenção area in southern Pará, one of the oldest agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon.