Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
15,413
result(s) for
"forest history"
Sort by:
Between Two Fires
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored
burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled
through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne
tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to
simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured
into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the
counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the
revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved
since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America's fire
story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire's
history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the
Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with
the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In
Between Two Fires , Pyne recounts how, after the Great
Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America's
founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested
itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of
attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more
pluralistic strategy for fire's restoration. The revolution
succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has
failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen
short of its goals. Today, the nation's backcountry and
increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more
damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds,
firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come
to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires.
Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape
our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is
a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It's America's story
told through the nation's flames.
eBook
Wytham Woods : Oxford's ecological laboratory
This iconic location has been the subject of a series of continuous ecological research programmes dating back to the 1920s, which has provided a level of continuity that is extremely rare. This book tells the Wytham story in a way that is accessible to both scientist and general reader alike.
Book
Fire management in the American West
Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of society--the timber industry in particular. Drawing on correspondence both between and within the Forest Service and the major timber industry associations, newspaper articles, articles from industry outlets, and policy documents from the late 1800s through the present, Hudson shows how the US forest industry, under the constraint of profitability, pushed the USFS away from private industry regulation and toward fire exclusion, eventually changing national forest policy into little more than fire policy. More recently, the USFS has attempted to move beyond the policy of complete fire suppression. Interviews with public land managers in the Pacific Northwest shed light on the sources of the agency's struggles as it attempts to change the way we understand and relate to fire in the West. Fire Management in the American West will be of great interest to environmentalists, sociologists, fire managers, scientists, and academics and students in environmental history and forestry.
eBook
Burning planet : the story of fire through time
Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years, as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth. Andrew Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Book
Seeds of Control
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.
eBook
Between two fires : a fire history of contemporary America
\"Between Two Fires relates the play-by-play of the fire revolution and its aftermath\"--Provided by publisher.
Book
Modernizing nature
This book contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism. Instead, it argues that the myriad colonial sciences had ideological and interventionist traditions distinct from each other and from the colonial bureaucracy, and that these tensions better explain environmental politics and policy dilemmas in the post-colonial era. The author argues that tropical forestry in the 19th century consisted of at least two distinct approaches towards nature, resource, and people; and what won out in the end was the Continental European forestry paradigm. He also shows that science and scientists were relatively marginal until the First World War. It was the acute scientific and resource crisis felt during the War, along with the rise of experts and expertise in Britain during that period and the lobby-politics of an organized empire-wide scientific community, that resulted in resource management regimes such as forestry beginning to get serious state backing. Over time, considerable differences in approach and outlook towards policy emerged between different colonial scientific communities, such as foresters and agriculturists. These different colonial sciences represented different situated knowledges, with different visions of nature, people, and empire, and in different configurations of power. Finally, in a panoramic overview of post-colonial developments, the author argues that the hegemony of these state-scientific regimes of resource management during the period 1950-1990 engendered not just social revolt, as recent historical work has shown, but also intellectual protest. Consequently, the discipline of forestry became systematically re-conceptualized, with new approaches to sylviculture, economics, law, and crucially, new visions of modernity. This disciplinary change constitutes nothing short of a cognitive revolution, one that has been brought about by a clearly articulated political perspective on the orientation of the discipline of forestry by its practitioners.
eBook
Green wars : conservation and decolonization in the Maya forest
\"Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case studies how \"saving\" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra brings Guatemala's 36-year civil war into the perspective of a longer history of 200 years of settler colonialism to show how conservation works to make Q'eqchi's into immigrants on their own territory. Even as the post-war state calls on them to claim rights as individual citizens, Q'eqchi's seek survival as a people. Her analysis reveals that Q'eqchi's both appeal to the nation-state and engage in relationships of mutual recognition with other Indigenous peoples -- and the land itself -- in their calls for a material decolonization.\"--Provided by publisher.
Book
Clearcutting the Pacific rain forest
This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of BC, Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965.
eBook