The paper asks, what historical conditions made it possible to conceive of hydro technical engineering in moral categories?
This paper analyses the turning-point in attitudes to the most distinctive feature of one nation’s indigenous environment.
Taylor seeks to describe the popular outdoor movement that he maintains has developed generically in both its ‘ideological evolution and its practical expression’ (16), from the earliest establishment of the Footpath Preservation Societies, through the Campaign for Access, and an Outdoor Movement on Wheels.
G. P. Marsh wrote his monumental Man and Nature (1864) almost entirely in Italy, where he drew heavily from Italian insights and Italian landscapes.
The Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conservationists (AZTREC) is founded in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province.
Following the emergence of its colonial forest service, France establishes the first forest reserves to manage the precious tropical rain forests in Cochinchina (present-day Vietnam).
The passage of the first forest regulations in India under British rule leads to the establishment of the Imperial Forest Service.
The New Forest is declared a royal forest under King William I of England.
UN releases “Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium.”
The United Nations develop a code of conduct for the protection and preservation of global natural habitats and resources.
