Managing Northern Europe's Forests : : Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology / / ed. by K. Jan Oosthoek, Richard Hölzl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Baeté, Hans,; Eliasson, Per,; Fritzbøger, Bo,; Frivold, Lars Helge,; Grewe, Bernd-Stefan,; Hölzl, Richard,; Majchrowska, Anna,; Oosthoek, K. Jan,; Roiko-Jokela, Heikki,; Svendsrud, Asbjørn,; Tallier, Pierre-Alain,; Törnlund, Erik,; Vandekerkhove, Kris,; Verboven, Hilde,; Verheyen, Kris,
• HerausgeberIn: Hölzl, Richard,; Oosthoek, K. Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region’s woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters, the contributors to t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Tables, Maps and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction State Forestry in Northern Europe
• CHAPTER 1 Forestry in Germany, c.1550–2000
• CHAPTER 2 State Forestry in the Netherlands From Liberalism to Nature Creation
• CHAPTER 3 State Forestry in Belgium since the End of the Eighteenth Century
• CHAPTER 4 Origins and Development of State Forestry in the United Kingdom
• CHAPTER 5 State Forestry in Denmark from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
• CHAPTER 6 State Forestry in Norway
• CHAPTER 7 Swedish State Forestry, 1790–2000
• CHAPTER 8 Finnish Forestry in a Long-Term Perspective
• CHAPTER 9 The History of State Forests and Forestry in Poland
• CONCLUSION National Histories, Shared Legacies State Forestry in Northern Europe in Comparison
• Glossary
• IndexI