Establishment of the International Joint Commission (IJC)
The commission provides mechanisms for resolving matters over waters bordering Canada and the USA.
The commission provides mechanisms for resolving matters over waters bordering Canada and the USA.
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.
During the last 50–100 years, large numbers of species associated with semi-natural grassland have declined. One reason for this is the considerable reduction of grassland area. Another possible explanation is the loss of historical management practices.
Salinity in Victoria’s irrigated districts can be understood as the result not only of environmental predisposition and technological inadequacies, but of a prevailing political philosophy which considered irrigation as a social and economic good per se.
Jones explores the disparity between real and imagined environments in Australian organic farming and gardening during the 1940s.
What can works of landscape art tell us about past ecologies? This article describes a pilot study in which a method for systematically recording the aesthetic, ecological and environmental content of landscape artworks was investigated.
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 second part of this two-part paper looks at the influence on forestry of knowledge and management practices exchanged through professional-scientific networks.
This essay traces the development of the physical and cultural infrastructure of colonial flood control in the Indus valley.
Germans arrived in Tanzania with a vision of scientific forestry derived from European and Asian templates of forest management that was premised on the creation of forest reserves emptied of human settlement. They found a landscape and human environment that was not amenable to established practices of rotational forestry.