Conservation’s Roots : : Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100–1800 / / ed. by Richard Keyser, Abigail P. Dowling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Auge, Oliver,; Dowling, Abigail P.,; Hoffmann, Richard C.,; Jakobsson, Eva,; Jørgensen, Dolly,; Keyser, Richard,; Keyzer, Maïka De,; Martelli, Cristina Arrigoni,; Morrison, Sara,; Poublanc, Sébastien,; Szabó, Péter,; Warde, Paul,; Zeheter, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Dowling, Abigail P.,; Keyser, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)

The ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation’s Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Multiple-Use Resource Management in Preindustrial Societies: Pigs, Parks, Game, and Heathlands -- 1. Controlling Pigs in Countryside and City for Sustainable Medieval Agriculture -- 2. Sustainability and Natural Resource Management at Hesdin, Artois, France, 1302–1329 -- 3. Eating Your Game and Having It Too: North-Central Italian Conservation of Game Animals and Birds, 1300–1550 -- 4. Sustaining Premodern Heathlands, 1400–1750: Collective Knowledge and Peasant Communities in the Campine, Belgium -- Part II. The Governance of Aquatic Resources: Fishing and Flowing Freshwater -- 5. Fisheries Regulations in Late Medieval Europe: Authorities, Concerns, Measures -- 6. Managing the Lake Constance Fisheries, ca. 1350–1800 -- 7. Keep the Water Flowing! Premodern Swedish Water Management -- Part III. The Deep Roots of Woodland Conservation -- 8. The Medieval Roots of Woodland Conservation: Northern France and Northwestern Europe, ca. 1100–1500 -- 9. Managing Southern French Forests under—and before— Colbert: Between Law and Custom, ca. 1500–1700 -- 10. Conserving the “Vert” in Early Modern Sherwood Forest -- 11. Sustainability Prior to Carlowitz’s Sylvicultura? A Study Based on Cases from Schleswig-Holstein -- 12. Traditional Woodland Management, Forest Legislation, and Modern Nature Conservation in East-Central Europe -- Afterword -- Index