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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... important consequences in terms of management policies and practices. Traditional resource management has led to criticisms and to forestry practices being questioned over the last decades, while sustainable ecosystem-based forest ...
... important issue in the discourse on tree-planting in the late 20th century. With the help of these tools, we can reconstruct a picture of these first forests of Britain at their peak, between 5,500 and 3,000 B.C. They were in all ...
... important part in the scenario. Botanist and landscape historian Oliver Rackham claims that half of England was no ... importance of the wood resource ensured that it was managed so as to keep productivity high. What may have contributed ...
... important sources of revenue for the Crown. Hugh de Neville, Justice of the Forest of King John, thus collected vast sums of money for the king, in the form of Forest amercements (fines for offences against forest law), proceeds of ...
... important blood ritual through which the hierarchy of status and honour around the king was ordered' [Schama 1995: 144]. Henry VIII, for instance, who hunted the deer with passion, was the last king to create a Royal Forest, the Forest ...
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