Conservation's roots : managing for sustainability in preindustrial Europe, 1100-1800 / edited by Abigail P. Dowling and Richard Keyser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dowling, Abigail Paige, editor.

Keyser, Richard, editor.

Series:

Environment in history ; Volume 19.

Environment in history ; Volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation of natural resources--Europe--History.

Conservation of natural resources.

Human ecology--History.

Human ecology.

Environmental management--Europe--History.

Environmental management.

Sustainability--Europe--History.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2020]

Summary:

"The ideas and practices that comprise "conservation" are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation's Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Multiple-Use Resource Management in Preindustrial Societies: Pigs, Parks, Game, and Heathlands

1. Controlling Pigs in Countryside and City for Sustainable Medieval Agriculture

2. Sustainability and Natural Resource Management at Hesdin, Artois, France, 1302–1329

3. Eating Your Game and Having It Too: North-Central Italian Conservation of Game Animals and Birds, 1300–1550

4. Sustaining Premodern Heathlands, 1400–1750: Collective Knowledge and Peasant Communities in the Campine, Belgium

Part II. The Governance of Aquatic Resources: Fishing and Flowing Freshwater

5. Fisheries Regulations in Late Medieval Europe: Authorities, Concerns, Measures

6. Managing the Lake Constance Fisheries, ca. 1350–1800

7. Keep the Water Flowing! Premodern Swedish Water Management

Part III. The Deep Roots of Woodland Conservation

8. The Medieval Roots of Woodland Conservation: Northern France and Northwestern Europe, ca. 1100–1500

9. Managing Southern French Forests under—and before— Colbert: Between Law and Custom, ca. 1500–1700

10. Conserving the “Vert” in Early Modern Sherwood Forest

11. Sustainability Prior to Carlowitz’s Sylvicultura? A Study Based on Cases from Schleswig-Holstein

12. Traditional Woodland Management, Forest Legislation, and Modern Nature Conservation in East-Central Europe

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789206937

1789206936

OCLC:

1203954743