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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Management of Crown Forests at the Cape of Good Hope Under the Old Regime and Under the New
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Management of Crown Forests at the Cape of Good Hope Under the Old Regime
Author: John Croumbie BrownPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021963635
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This detailed study examines the history of the management of Crown forests at the Cape of Good Hope during the 18th and 19th centuries. Drawing on a wide range of historical documents, John Croumbie Brown provides a comprehensive overview of the policies and practices that shaped the forestry industry in this unique colonial context. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the environmental history of South Africa and the history of resource management. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Modernizing Nature
Author: S. Ravi RajanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191515469
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism. Instead, it argues that the myriad colonial sciences had ideological and interventionist traditions distinct from each other and from the colonial bureaucracy and that these tensions better explain environmental politics and policy dilemmas in the post-colonial era. Professor Rajan argues that tropical forestry in the nineteenth century consisted of at least two distinct approaches towards nature, resource, and people; and what won out in the end was the Continental European forestry paradigm. Rajan also shows that science and scientists were relatively marginal until the First World War. It was the acute scientific and resource crisis felt during the War, along with the rise of experts and expertise in Britain during that period and the lobby-politics of an organized empire-wide scientific community, that resulted in resource management regimes such as forestry beginning to get serious state backing. Over time, considerable differences in approach and outlook towards policy emerged between different colonial scientific communities, such as foresters and agriculturists. These different colonial sciences represented different situated knowledges, with different visions of nature, people, and empire, and in different configurations of power. Finally, in a panoramic overview of post-colonial developments, Rajan argues that the hegemony of these state-scientific regimes of resource-management during the period 1950-1990 engendered not just social revolt, as recent historical work has shown, but also intellectual protest. Consequently, the discipline of forestry became systematically re-conceptualized, with newapproaches to sylviculture, economics, law, and crucially, with new visions of modernity. This disciplinary change constitutes nothing short of a cognitive revolution, one that has been brought about by a clearly articulated political perspective on the orientation of the discipline of forestry by its practitioners.
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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New YorkPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
The Rise of Conservation in South Africa
Author: William BeinartPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199541221
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
A major contribution to the environmental history of settler societies, William Beinart's innovative study analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa, examining them as a response to the rapid transformation of natural pastures brought about as the Cape became a major exporter of wool.
Bibliography on Land Utilization, 1918-36
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1566
Book Description
This bibliography has been compiled as a companion volume to the Bibliography on Land Settlement issued in 1934 by the United States Department of Agriculture as Miscellaneous Publication 172. It contains selected references to the literature on the economic aspects of land utilization and land policy in the United States and in foreign countries, published for the most part during the period 1918-36.