Methods and approaches in forest history /
This book presents edited and revised versions of 23 papers selected from those presented at a major conference on History and forest resources, held in Florence, Italy, in 1998. It also includes an introduction by the first editor. The book is a companion volume to 'Forest history: internation...
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Wallingford, UK ; New York :
CABI Pub. in association with the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO),
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- Changing roles of the forest history society: new approaches to environmental history in North America / S. Anderson
- How professional historians can play a useful role in the study of an interdisciplinary forest history / C. Ernst
- Putting 'flesh on the carbon-based bones' of forest history / M. Williams
- Forest management from positivism to the culture of complexity / O. Ciancio and S. Nocentini
- Economic areas and forest nature: the search for forest images and the understanding of nature in the past / B. Selter
- The age and size of hazel (Corylus avellana L.) Stools of Nåtö Island, Åland Islands, SW Finland / C.-A. Hæggstrom
- The study of charcoal-burning sites in the Apennine Mountains of Liguria (NW Italy) as a tool for forest history / C. Montanari, P. Prono and S. Scipioni
- Local economic history, environmental history and forest history: some Swedish experiences and suggestions / S. Gaunitz
- Socioeconomical and ecological aspects of Coppice Woods history in the lower Vosges (France) and the Black Forest (Germany) / R. Ostermann and A. Reif
- The forest history of Boreal Sweden: a multidisciplinary approach / L. Östlund and O. Zackrisson
- Preindustrial forests in central Europe as objects of historical-geographical research / W. Schenk
- Methods towards studying historical changes in forest and landscape patterns: a comparison between two nearby socioeconomic contexts / V. Robiglio
- Temporal and spatial changes in a Boreal Forest landscape GIS applications / A.-L. Axelsson
- Comparing damages: Italian and American concepts of restoration / M. Hall
- Searching for common ground: reconstructing landscape history in east Africa's Eastern Arc mountains / C.A. Conte
- The 'alnoculture' system in the Ligurian eastern Apennines: archive evidence / S. Bertolotto and R. Cevasco
- Between nature and culture: the contribution of anthropology to environmental study / P. Clemente, N. Breda and V. Lapiccirella-Zingari
- Prehistoric cultures and the development of woodlands / H. Küster
- Integration between genetic and archaeobotanical data in a study on the evolutionary history of Pinus halepensis Mill. Populations in southern Italy / S. Puglisi ... [et al.]
- Xylology and forest history / E. Corona
- Bristlecone pines and tales of change in the great basin / M.P. Cohen
- Biodiversity and forest management: from biodiversity to geochronodiversity / P. Arnold, M. Hotyat and L. Simon
- Temporal differences in forest history at two sites in eastern north america / G.B. Blank.