Forest history: international studies on socio-economic and forest ecosystem change. Report No.2 of the IUFRO Task Force on Environmental Change

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1. Forest Dynamics in Heavily Polluted Regions
Edited by J.L. Innes and J. Oleksyn
2. Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem
Change
Edited by M. Agnoletti and S. Anderson
3. Methods and Approaches in Forest History
Edited by M. Agnoletti and S. Anderson
4. Air Pollution and the Forests of Developing and Rapidly Industrializing
Countries
Edited by J.L. Innes and A.H. Haron
5. Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development
Edited by M. Price and N. Butt
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Forest History: International Studies
on Socio-economic and Forest
Ecosystem Change
Report No. 2 of the IUFRO Task Force on
Environmental Change
Edited by
M. Agnoletti
Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences,
University of Florence,Italy
and
S. Anderson
Forest History Society,Durham, North Carolina,USA
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Introduction: Factors and Processes in the History of Forest
Resources 1
Mauro Agnoletti
1 Les Ressources Forestières et le Développement Economique de la
Vallée Mosane du 11e au 17e Siècle d’après l’Étude du Trafic Fluvial 21
M. Suttor
2 ‘The Coveted Tree’: the Industrial Threat to the Vosges Forest in the
16th and 18th Centuries 37
E. Garnier
3 The War of the Plants: Botanical Exchange and Agricultural
Conquestof the New World during Colonial Times 49
E. Amodio
4 The Historic Evolution of the Haitian Forest 65
F. Hatzenberger
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5 Forests and Forestry Culture in Tuscany in the 18th and 19th
Centuries 79
P. Nanni
6 Earlier Images of the Amazon in the USA 93
L.F. Sedrez
7 The Tree and the Machine:Manufacture, Communities and
Institutions in the Woods of Southern Italy 109
M. Armiero
8 The Muniellos Forests (Asturias, Spain) in History 119
J.P. Torrente
9 Une Illusion Française: la Pénurie des Ressources Ligneuses,
1814–1914 127
A. Corvol-Dessert
10 Shortage of Wood? Towards a New Approach in Forest History: the
Palatinate in the 19th Century 143
B.-S. Grewe
11 Socio-economic Development and Changing Mental Concepts
(Re)shaping the Woods in a German Region of Low Mountain
Ranges: Contributions of a Study on a Regional Level to the
Discussion of Major Issues of Forest History 153
G. Modert
12 Historical Interactions Between Agricultural and Forest Utilization
in the Austrian Alps and their Impact on the Present Forest
Condition 161
E. Johann
13 Exploiting the Last Phase of the North European Timber Frontier for
the International Market 1890–1914: an Economic–Historical
Approach 171
J. Björklund
14 ‘Impossible’ Roads and ‘Inaccessible’ Woods: Aspects and Problems
of Wood Transport in the 18th Century, Southern Italy 185
M. Gangemi
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15 Parks, Plebs and the Picturesque: Sherwood Forest as a Contested
Landscape in Later Georgian England, 1770–1830 195
B. Cowell
16 Social and Environmental Determining Factors of Forest Fire
History: the Case of Eastern Andalusia, 1840–1890 211
S. Cruz Artacho, M. González de Molina, M.N. Delgado and
A. Ortega
17 Common Woodlands in Mediterranean Societies: Commercial
Management Versus Forms of Peasant Resistance in Andalusia
(Spain), 1750–1930 223
A.O. Santos
18 Biodiversity Conservation in Central Himalaya: a People’s
Approach 237
A.S. Rawat
19 People’s Struggle Against the Institution of Royal Forest Reserves
in England in the 11th–14th Centuries 253
J.J. Serovayskay
20 In the Wood of Neglect 263
J. Dargavel
21 Law, Forest Resources and Management of Territory in the Late
Middle Ages:Woodlands in Tuscan Municipal Statutes 279
F. Salvestrini
22 A Brief History of Forest Changes in the Sila Greca Mountains 289
M.A. Gallo andF. Iovino
23 Economic Culture and Forest Policy in Italy, 1861–1915 307
T. Raffaelli
24 Forest Policy and Public Forest Production in Spain, 1855–1936 313
D.G. Martínez, J.I.J. Blanco, J.A.S. Amarilla, J.F.Z. Pineda and
S.Z. Blanco
25 Economic Policy and Forest Resources in Spain: the Case of the
Province of Pontevedra, 1926–1956 321
E. Rico Boquete
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26 The Impact of Five Forest Commissions on theHistory and Practice
of Forestry in British Columbia, Canada 337
P. Mitchell-Banks
27 A Brief History of Italian Forest Policy 351
A.L. Freschi and L. Hermanin
28 A History of the French Coniferous Forest 363
V. Moriniaux
29 Imagining and Creating Forests in Britain, 1890–1939 371
J. Tsouvalis and C. Watkins
30 Some Aspects of Forest Management in Spain from the 16th to the
19th Century 387
C.M. Manuel
31 The Impact of Economic, Social and Political Factors on the Ecology
of Small English Woodlands: a Case Study of the Ancient Woods in
South Yorkshire, England 397
I.D. Rotherham and M. Jones
Index 411
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Contributors
M. Agnoletti, Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Via San
Bonaventura 13, I-50145 Florence, Italy
J.A.S. Amarilla,Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
E. Amodio, Escuela di Antropología, Universidad Central di Venezuela,
Caracas, Venezuela
S. Anderson, Forest History Society, 701 Vickers Avenue, Durham, NC
27701, USA
M. Armiero, Department of History, University of Naples, Via Giuseppe
Bonito 29, 80129 Naples, Italy
S.C. Artacho, Departamento Territorio y Patrimonio Histórico, Universidad
de Jaén, Paraje de las Lagunillas, s/n CP 23071, Jaén, Spain
J. Björklund, Department of Economic History, Umeå University, S–90187
Umeå, Sweden
J.I.J. Blanco, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad
Complutense, Campus de Somosaguas, 28223 Madrid, Spain
S.Z. Blanco,Extremadura University, Spain
A. Corvol-Dessert, CNRS, 45, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
B. Cowell, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2–4 Cockspur Street,
London SW16 1TL, UK
J. Dargavel, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian
National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
M.N. Delgado, Departamento Historia Contemporánea, Universidad de
Granada Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
A.L. Freschi, Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences,
University of Florence, Via San Bonaventura 13, 50100 Florence, Italy
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x Contributors
M.A. Gallo, Liceo Scientifico Statale Decollatura (CZ), viale Stazione 70,
88100 Gallina di Reggio Calabria, Italy
M. Gangemi, Facoltà di Economica, Istituto di Storia Economica, Università
degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
E. Garnier, Laboratory of Historical Science, University of Besancon, 12, rue
des Ejols, 88120 Vagney, France
M. González de Molina, Departamento Historia Contemporánea,
Universidad de Granada Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
B.-S. Grewe, Universitaet Trier, Neuere u. Neueste Geschichte, D-54286
Trier, Germany
F. Hatzenberger, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), 10 rue Laugier,
75017 Paris, France
L. Hermanin, Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences,
University of Florence, Via San Bonaventura 13, 50100 Florence, Italy
F. Iovino, Dipartimento di Agrochimica & Agrobiologia, Università di Reggio
Calabria, Piazza San Francesco di Sales, 89061 Gallina di Reggio
Calabria, Italy
E. Johann, Österreichischer Forstverein, Arbeitsgruppe Forstgeschichte,
Bertoldstrasse 17, D-79085 Freiburg, Austria
M. Jones, Countryside Research Unit, School of Leisure and Food
Management, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Sheffield S1
1WB, UK
C.M. Manuel, Departamento de Silvopascicultura, Escuela Técnica Superior
de Ingenieros de Montes de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n 28040 –
Madrid, Spain
D.G. Mártinez,Zaragoza University, Spain
P. Mitchell-Banks, Central Coast Consulting, 4439 West 7th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC, V6R 1X1, Canada
G. Modert, Institut für Neuere Geschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, Trautenwolfstraße 3/I, D-80802 Munich, Germany
V. Moriniaux, Institut de Géographie, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, 191,
rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris, France
P. Nanni, Rivista di Storia dell’Agricoltura, Accademia dei Georgofili, Logge
degli Uffizi Corti, 50122 Florence, Italy
A. Ortega, Departamento Historia Contemporánea, Universidad de Granada
Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
J.F.Z. Pineda,Malaga University, Spain
T. Raffaelli, Dipartimento di Economia dell’ Impresa, della Tecnologia, dell’
Ambiente, viale Sant’ Ignazio 17, 09123, Cagliari, Italy
A.S. Rawat, 2B Sleepy Hollow, Naini Tal, UP 263001, India
E. Rico Boquete, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Francisco
Mosqueda 10, 4C, 28043 Madrid, Spain
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