Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism write by Gregory Allen Barton. This book was released on 2002-10-17. Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who celebrated a new class of government foresters as public heroes. Imperial foresters warned of impending catastrophe, desertification and global climate change if the reverse process of deforestation continued. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.
Seeds of Control
Seeds of Control - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeds of Control write by David Fedman. This book was released on 2020-07-23. Seeds of Control available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea’s forest resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan’s imperial sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after 1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war. In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea—a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.” Drawing from sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green imperialism in Asia.
Empire of Timber
Empire of Timber - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of Timber write by Erik Loomis. This book was released on 2016. Empire of Timber available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.
Empire Forestry
Empire Forestry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire Forestry write by . This book was released on 1922. Empire Forestry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Empire of the Beetle
Empire of the Beetle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of the Beetle write by Andrew Nikiforuk. This book was released on 2011-07-22. Empire of the Beetle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The beetle didn't act alone. Misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and a hundred years of fire suppression created a volatile geography that released the world's oldest forest manager from all natural constraints. Like most human empires, the beetles exploded wildly and then crashed, leaving in their wake grieving landowners, humbled scientists, hungry animals, and altered watersheds. Although climate change triggered this complex event, human arrogance assuredly set the table. With little warning, an ancient insect pointedly exposed the frailty of seemingly stable manmade landscapes. Drawing on first-hand accounts from entomologists, botanists, foresters, and rural residents, award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, investigates this unprecedented beetle plague, its startling implications, and the lessons it holds.
