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.
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The authors assert that potash production in northern Sweden lost out to German producers, who started to produce potash industrially at the same time that production in northern Sweden ceased. The ecological significance of the potash production is difficult to estimate…
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.
Reviews of histories of: the forest landscape of Molise in Italy; Scottish woodland; the Columbia River, and of the Thames Embankment in Victorian London.
More than three million Bengali perish in a famine that remains one of the worst catastrophes in the history of modern India.
The Sharda Canal is the last major British colonial irrigation project completed in the United Provinces of India.
The Kyoto Protocol is an addition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that stipulates a reduction of greenhouse gases.
The convention acknowledges that desertification and drought are global problems, and calls for international collaboration to combat its effects.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes its “Red List” of endangered animal and plant species.
UNESCO recognizes the area’s exceptionally diverse flora and fauna and its value to scientific research.