management

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.

Books by Victor Olgyay (Design with Climate) and Ralph Knowles (Form and Stability ) pioneer a “green building” movement among architects and designers.

Egon Glesinger publishes his study on the global importance of wood as a raw material.

In his 1791 work, Georg Ludwig Hartig advocates a new strategy for sustainable forest management.

One of the first comprehensive forest surveys takes place in the duchy of Saxe-Weimar.

The model calls for the inclusion of diverse plant species at various stages of growth in forests with a view to reproducing the conditions of an indigenous forest.

Wilhelm Gottfried Moser formulates the basic principle of “sustainable forest management.”

The convention acknowledges that desertification and drought are global problems, and calls for international collaboration to combat its effects.

One of the largest fire disasters in Australian history, the 1939 bushfires devastate large parts of Victoria.