forests

A summary of a document produced for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.

Jan Oosthoek tells in this book the story of how 20th century foresters devised ways to successfully reforest the poor Scottish uplands.

Jan Oosthoek explores the fascinating history of the afforestation of the Scottish uplands over the course of the twentieth century.

Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.

First published in 1933, The People’s Forests makes a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation’s forests in the face of generations of devastating practices.

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.

A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.

An examination of the origin, development, and future of environmental history in Spanish historiography.

A closer examination of India’s monetary history reveals that there exist many similarities between the effects of structural adjustment programs and those of monetary disturbances in the last quarter of the nineteenth century due to the depreciation of the rupee.

This collection of essays examines the history of human interaction with forest and marine ecosystems in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, where many of the contributors have conducted fieldwork.