Empire forestry and the origins of environmentalism / Gregory Allen Barton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barton, Greg, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 34.

Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Forests and forestry.

Forest management--History.

Forest management.

Environmentalism--History.

Environmentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Empire Forestry & the Origins of Environmentalism

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who celebrated a new class of government foresters as public heroes. Imperial foresters warned of impending catastrophe, desertification and global climate change if the reverse process of deforestation continued. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The great interference

3. Empire forestry and British India

4. Environmental innovation in British India

5. Empire forestry and the colonies

6. Empire forestry and American environmentalism.

7. From empire forestry to Commonwealth forestry.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13365-3

0-511-04248-5

1-280-43411-2

9786610434114

0-511-17781-X

0-511-14825-9

0-511-30523-0

0-511-49362-2

0-511-04561-1

OCLC:

475917507