Empire Forestry and the Origins of EnvironmentalismCambridge University Press, 17 d’oct. 2002 - 192 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 The great interference | 9 |
3 Empire forestry and British India | 38 |
4 Environmental innovation in British India | 62 |
5 Empire forestry and the colonies | 94 |
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Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism Gregory Allen Barton Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |
Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism Gregory Allen Barton Previsualització no disponible - 2002 |
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agriculture American argued Bombay Britain British East Africa British Empire Burma Canada Cape climate theory Commonwealth Conservator of Forests Cyprus Dalhousie deforestation Dehra Dun Delhi demarcation Dietrich Brandis ecological empire forestry environmental history European fire protection Forest Act Forest Administration forest areas forest conservancy forest fires forest lands forest management forest officer forest product forest reserves forest service Forester 31 Forestry Conference forestry policy Forests of India Garden and Forest Government of India grazing harvest Historical Geography History of Forestry Hough ibid imperial Indian Forest Department Indian Forest Service Indian Forester 28 Journal legislation London Madras National Archives native Nigeria Pegu percent Pinchot plantations plants practice Protected Forests Provinces Punjab R. S. Troup Railways replanting Report reserved forest revenue Ribbentrop Royal Sargent Schlich Science settlement shifting cultivation Society soil South Africa South Australia square miles Stebbing survey teak United village wood Worster Zealand