Conservation’s Roots: Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100–1800

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nPart I. Multiple-Use Resource Management in Preindustrial Societies: Pigs, Parks, Game, and Heathlands\n1. Controlling Pigs in Countryside and City for Sustainable Medieval Agriculture\n2. Sustainability and Natural Resource Management at Hesdin, Artois, France, 1302–1329\n3. Eating Your Game and Having It Too: North-Central Italian Conservation of Game Animals and Birds, 1300–1550\n4. Sustaining Premodern Heathlands, 1400–1750: Collective Knowledge and Peasant Communities in the Campine, Belgium\nPart II. The Governance of Aquatic Resources: Fishing and Flowing Freshwater\n5. Fisheries Regulations in Late Medieval Europe: Authorities, Concerns, Measures\n6. Managing the Lake Constance Fisheries, ca. 1350–1800\n7. Keep the Water Flowing! Premodern Swedish Water Management\nPart III. The Deep Roots of Woodland Conservation\n8. The Medieval Roots of Woodland Conservation: Northern France and Northwestern Europe, ca. 1100–1500\n9. Managing Southern French Forests under—and before— Colbert: Between Law and Custom, ca. 1500–1700\n10. Conserving the “Vert” in Early Modern Sherwood Forest\n11. Sustainability Prior to Carlowitz’s Sylvicultura? A Study Based on Cases from Schleswig-Holstein\n12. Traditional Woodland Management, Forest Legislation, and Modern Nature Conservation in East-Central Europe\nAfterword\nIndex