sustainability

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

Paul Sarasin delivers his address “Über die Aufgaben des Weltnaturschutzes” (On Tasks of the World Nature Protection Movement).

The world’s first forestry school, located in the Saxon city of Tharandt, attracts students from all over Europe.

British economist Thomas Robert Malthus warns of the dangers of overpopulation.

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.”

In Sylvicultura Oeconomica, written in response to the widespread scarcity of wood throughout Europe, Hans Carl von Carlowitz summarizes extant forestry knowledge and supplements it with his own observations.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV, oversees “L’ordonnance des eaux et forêts,” ushering in a new system of forest management.