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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... Wood and Timber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1.3.3 The Beginnings of Plantations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1.4 Wooden Walls and Hearts of Oak ...
... Woods (Derbyshire), a 34-hectare new wood planted as part of the National Forest with native tree species, with the contribution of the RSA (Photo courtesy of the RSA) ...
... wood and small firelogs for sale at a petrol station (Photo courtesy of Mark Johnston) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Willow plantation for short rotation coppice on a Yorkshire farm (Photo courtesy of Forest Research) ...
... wood straddling Speke, Halton and Knowsley (Merseyside) (Photo Sylvie Nail) ... woods and a sense of adventure high up in the trees (Photo Sylvie Nail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 195 218 220 221 226 243 248 249 251 ...
... woods with techniques that have continued to be used well into the 19th century. Contrary to what has been asserted ... wood resource ensured that it was managed so as to keep productivity high. What may have contributed to the ...
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