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- Armiero, Marco, 1966-
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Confessions of an Enthusiastic Chair
- 2017
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In: Environment and History. - : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; , s. vii-xi
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- Biasillo, Roberta, 1984-, et al.
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Seeing the nation for the trees : at the frontier of the Italian nineteenth century modernity
- 2018
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In: Environment and History. - : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 24:4, s. 497-508
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article we analyse the emergence and the transformation of three different socio-natural spaces in a particular historical context – that is, the establishment of a modern state. We explore this issue by researching the relationship between forests and modernisation from Unification in 1861 to the 1890s. Over this period Italy experienced a radical change connected with the state-building process, and forests represented a material place where innovations in social and economic development were tested. Based on three case studies, this article explores how modernity was articulated through urban parks, ironworks, and infrastructures. The three cases speak of both depletion and conservation; they exemplify the patterns through which, in the very making of modernity, Italian society articulated its relationship to nature in an attempt to overcome customary rights and the traditional rural organisation of society. Forests were constructed as socio-ecological spaces reflecting Italy’s contested and heterogeneous modernisation process through which political tensions, social conflicts and economic development theories were inscribed on transformed landscapes.
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- Kardell, Örjan, 1963-
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Swedish Forestry, Forest Pasture Grazing by Livestock and Game Browsing Pressure Since 1900
- 2016
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In: Environment and History. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 22, s. 561-587
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Growing numbers of wild ungulates are increasingly seen by concerned authorities in Europe as posing serious management problems, which include increasing browsing pressure by moose (Alces alces) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in Swedish forests. Recent investigations by the Swedish Forest Agency identify high browsing pressure as the main reason for a recent decline in regeneration of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), one of the two main commercial species in Swedish forestry. The high browsing pressure is also having a negative impact on biodiversity. Thus, voices within the forest community claim that browsing pressure has never been so high. This paper examines that claim from a historical perspective by comparing livestock grazing in forest pastures a century ago with contemporary game browsing, and identifying the main factors driving both the livestock exodus from Swedish forests during the first half of the twentieth century and the rapid increase in deer populations during the second half. Finally, testing the claim that browsing impact has never been so high, past grazing and present browsing are theoretically sized up and compared. Estimates of live weights and numbers of large herbivores in 1902 and 2012 are used. The result indicates that the claim might possibly be lacking in historical context.
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-, et al.
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Bodies between catastrophes and control
- 2015
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In: Environment and History. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 21:1, s. 171-174
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- Paglia, Eric, 1970-
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The Shock of the Anthropocene
- 2018
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In: Environment and history. - : WHITE HORSE PRESS. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 24:2, s. 294-296
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- Priebe, Janina, 1986-
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Science, Markets, and Power : Adolf Severin Jensen in the debate over Greenland's fisheries development during the early twentieth century
- 2018
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In: Environment and History. - : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 24:3, s. 349-375
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As a fisheries consultant to the colonial administration, Adolf Severin Jensen (1866-1953) followed, and was an active commentator on, all stages of the commercialisation of Greenland's fishing industry - from its early assessment shortly after 1900 to the sector's peak in the 1930s, and the first signs of a changing trend in the 1940s. This paper puts Jensen's perceptions of Greenlandic fisheries in dialogue with the ideas of scientific rationalisation, economic efficiency and colonial power. The accounts of the fisheries scientist offer a glimpse into the complicated interplay of applied science in natural resource exploitation and state interests at the turn of the twentieth century. His research agenda was coined by the goals of fisheries science to connect knowledge production to markets. However, Jensen's findings also merged with Denmark's aim to secure its colonial authority in Greenland and to exert effective power over both resources and people.
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- Dekker, Willem
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Faire mieux que la nature? The History of Eel Restocking in Europe
- 2016
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In: Environment and History. - 0967-3407. ; 22, s. 255-300
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Young eel, recruiting from the ocean towards Europe, are most abundant along the Atlantic coast of France. Since 1840, attempts have been made to redistribute them from the areas of highest abundance to other countries and farther inland. This 'restocking' has been troubled by technical constraints (e.g. mode of transport and maximum distance eel can be shipped alive), wars (e.g. the Franco Prussian War and World Wars One and Two) and, in recent decades, by shortage of supply due to the general decline of the eel stock all across Europe. Though objectives and procedures have changed considerably over the years, the recurring aim has been to increase production and, in that way, to 'faire mieux que la nature'. We document the historical development of these efforts from their inception, and contrast the achievements to the objectives. Except for the 1952-1990 period in Eastern Europe, restocking has probably added only slightly to the natural production. As successful as restocking might have been locally, it has not markedly changed the overall trends and distribution patterns or halted the general decline of the stock and fishery. Poor post-evaluation, frequent technical innovation and a constant renewal of the countries and people involved have kept the promise of a better future alive for 175 years.
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