Forest Policies and Social Change in EnglandSpringer Science & Business Media, 8 mei 2008 - 329 pagina's Forestry has been witness to some dramatic changes in recent years, with several Western countries now moving away from the traditional model of regarding forests merely as sources of wood. Rather these countries are increasingly recognizing their forests as multi-purpose resources with roles which go far beyond simple economics. In this innovative book, Sylvie Nail uses England as a case study to explore the relationships between forests, society and public perceptions, raising important questions about forest policy and management both now and in the future. Adopting a sociological approach to forest policy and management, the book discusses the current validity of the two principles underlying forestry since the Middle Ages: first, that forestry should only exist when no better use of the land can be made, and second, that forestry itself should be profitable. The author stresses how values and perceptions shape policies, and conversely how policies can modify perceptions, and also how policies can fail if they do not take perceptions into account. She concludes that many of the issues facing English forestry in the 21st century – from leisure, health and amenity provision, through education and rural as well as urban regeneration, to biodiversity conservation – go well beyond both national borders and the scope of forestry. Indeed forestry in the 21st century seems to be less about planting and managing trees than about being a vector and a mirror of social change. This novel synthesis provides a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers from all areas of natural resource studies, including those interested in social history, socio-economics, cultural geography and environmental psychology, as well as those studying landscape ecology, environmental history, policy analysis and natural resource management. |
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... Implementing a New Conception of Health . . . . . . . . . . 186 9.3 Education, a Newly-Born Target. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 9.3.1 Woodland as a Tool for Content-Learning. . . . . . . . . . . . 190 9.3.2 ...
... Building Up the Toolbox for Implementing and Assessing Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 From No Man's Lands to Thriving Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2.1 Desperately Seeking Stakeholders ...
... implemented to respond to the new challenges of forestry today. The definition of woodland in the UK is slightly different from that in other countries. It refers to land under stands of trees with a canopy cover of, or the potential to ...
... implement them (among them professionals of arboriculture), as well as social science researchers, human geographers and forest historians. The book is also intended as a resource to higher education, hoping that students of forestry ...
... implemented by charitable organisations, reveal new definitions of health and education and a new conception of the missions of the State in these areas, to which social forestry can contribute. The third part of the study moves into ...
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Nail Concluding remarkspdf | 293 |
Nail Bibliographypdf | 299 |
Nail Chronologypdf | 317 |
Nail Indexpdf | 323 |
Nail BMpdf | 329 |