Plantations and protected areas : a global history of forest management /

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Author / Creator:Bennett, Brett M., 1983- author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:History for a sustainable future
History for a sustainable future.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11909216
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Varying Form of Title:Global history of forest management
ISBN:9780262329910
0262329913
9780262029933
0262029936
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from electronic title page (JSTOR, viewed April 23, 2018).
Summary:"This book offers a historical perspective on the global proliferation of protected forest areas and productive timber plantations. It argues that a forest management divergence--the separation of wood production from the protection of forests--has occurred during the twentieth century as a result of globalisation. The book shows how plantations and protected areas evolved from, and then undermined, an earlier integrated forest management system, the conservation model, that sought both to produce timber and to conserve the environment. To trace these changes, the book reassesses the historical development of the science and profession of forestry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; offers an original interpretation on the twentieth-century creation of timber plantations in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia; and establishes how the controversies over deforestation led to the establishment of protected areas. The book concludes with the suggestion that to solve the problems associated with the forest management divergence scientists, policy makers and environmentalists must better integrate protective and productive aspects of forest management. To successfully achieve this integration requires a deeper awareness of history"--Publisher's description.
Other form:Print version: Bennett, Brett M., 1983- Plantations and protected areas. Cambridge, Massachussetts : The MIT Press, [2015] 9780262029933