Methods and Approaches in Forest HistoryMauro Agnoletti, Steven Anderson CABI, 2000 - 281 pages A companion to Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change which includes over 20 papers from the same conference held in Florence in 1998. This volume focuses on the different approaches and methods adopted in the study of forest history. The interdisciplinary nature of these studies is emphasized, bringing in the different perspectives of anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, foresters, historians, geneticists and geographers. This volume demonstrates the rich diversity of approaches and methods to forest history. |
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... type of disturbance was , and still is , often ignored by investigators , who concentrate more on populations and reactions to disturbances . This reductionism in considering the role of humans was not shared by Eugene Odum ( 1959 ) ...
... type of disturbance was , and still is , often ignored by investigators , who concentrate more on populations and reactions to disturbances . This reductionism in considering the role of humans was not shared by Eugene Odum ( 1959 ) ...
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... types of evidence but , although this may seem contra- dictory , the different fields of technical scholarship are distinguished by the use of different types of evidence . In forest history , very few scholars are trained to use all ...
... types of evidence but , although this may seem contra- dictory , the different fields of technical scholarship are distinguished by the use of different types of evidence . In forest history , very few scholars are trained to use all ...
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Contents
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New Approaches to Environmental History in North America | 21 |
2 How Professional Historians Can Play a Useful Role in the Study of an Interdisciplinary Forest History | 29 |
3 Putting Flesh on the CarbonBased Bones of Forest History | 35 |
4 Forest Management from Positivism to the Culture of Complexity | 47 |
the Search for Forest Images and the Understanding of Nature in the Past | 59 |
6 The Age and Size of Hazel Corylus avellana L Stools of N ato Island land Islands SW Finland | 67 |
7 The Study of Charcoalburning Sites in the Apennine Mountains of Liguria NW Italy as a Tool for Forest History | 79 |
GIS Applications | 157 |
Italian and American Concepts of Restoration | 165 |
Reconstructing Landscape History in East Africas Eastern Arc Mountains | 173 |
Archive Evidence | 189 |
the Contribution of Anthropology to Environmental Study | 203 |
18 Prehistoric Cultures and the Development of Woodlands | 215 |
19 Integration between Genetic and Archaeobotanical Data in a Study on the Evolutionary History of Pinus halepensis Mill Populations in Southern I... | 221 |
20 Xylology and Forest History | 233 |
Some Swedish Experiences and Suggestions | 93 |
9 Socioeconomical and Ecological Aspects of Coppice Woods History in the Lower Vosges France and the Black Forest Germany | 107 |
a Multidisciplinary Approach | 119 |
11 Preindustrial Forests in Central Europe as Objects of Historical Geographical Research | 129 |
a Comparison between Two Nearby Socioeconomic Contexts | 139 |
21 Bristlecone Pines and Tales of Change in the Great Basin | 241 |
From Biodiversity to Geochronodiversity | 251 |
23 Temporal Differences in Forest History at Two Sites in Eastern North America | 265 |
Index | 275 |
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Forest Biodiversity: Lessons from History for Conservation O. Honnay,K. Verheyen,B. Bossuyt,M. Hermy Limited preview - 2004 |