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Methods and approaches in forest history / edited by M. Agnoletti and S. Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- IUFRO research series ; 3.
- IUFRO research series ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forests and forestry--Congresses.
- Forests and forestry.
- Forest ecology--Congresses.
- Forest ecology.
- Forest management--Congresses.
- Forest management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, UK ; New York : CABI Pub. in association with the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A companion to ''Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change'' which includes over 20 papers from the same conference. It focuses on different approaches and methods adopted in the study of forest history.
- Contents:
- Contributors; Preface; Introduction: the Development of Forest History Research; 1 Changing Roles of the Forest History Society: New Approaches to Environmental History in North America; 2 How Professional Historians Can Play a Useful Role in the Study of an Interdisciplinary Forest History; 3 Putting `Flesh on the Carbon-Based Bones' of Forest History; 4 Forest Management from Positivism to the Culture of Complexity; 5 Economic Areas and Forest Nature: the Search for Forest Images and the Understanding of Nature in the Past
- 6 The Age and Size of Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) Stools of Nato» Island, land Islands, SW Finland 7 The Study of Charcoal-burning Sites in the Apennine Mountains of Liguria (NW Italy) as a Tool for Forest History; 8 Local Economic History, Environmental History and Forest History: Some Swedish Experiences and Suggestions; 9 Socioeconomical and Ecological Aspects of Coppice Woods History in the Lower Vosges (France) and the Black Forest (Germany); 10 The Forest History of Boreal Sweden: a Multidisciplinary Approach
- 11 Preindustrial Forests in Central Europe as Objects of Historical± Geographical Research 12 Methods Towards Studying Historical Changes in Forest and Landscape Patterns: a Comparison between Two Nearby Socioeconomic Contexts; 13 Temporal and Spatial Changes in a Boreal Forest Landscape: GIS Applications; 14 Comparing Damages: Italian and American Concepts of Restoration; 15 Searching for Common Ground: Reconstructing Landscape History in East Africa's Eastern Arc Mountains; 16 The `Alnoculture' System in the Ligurian Eastern Apennines: Archive Evidence
- 17 Between Nature and Culture: the Contribution of Anthropology to Environmental Study 18 Prehistoric Cultures and the Development of Woodlands; 19 Integration between Genetic and Archaeobotanical Data in a Study on the Evolutionary History of Pinus halepensis Mill. Populations in Southern Italy; 20 Xylology and Forest History; 21 Bristlecone Pines and Tales of Change in the Great Basin; 22 Biodiversity and Forest Management: From Biodiversity to Geochronodiversity; 23 Temporal Differences in Forest History at Two Sites in Eastern North America; Index
- Notes:
- Papers selected from a conference held in Florence, Italy, in 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-81176-5
- 9786610811762
- 0-85199-933-6
- OCLC:
- 476051615
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