Forest history: international studies on socio-economic and forest ecosystem change. Report No.2 of the IUFRO Task Force on Environmental Change

Chapter: 1 (Page no: 1)  Introduction: factors and processes in the history of forest resources. Author(s): Agnoletti, M.    Chapter: 2 (Page no: 21)  Forest resources and economic development in the Meuse Valley from the 11th to the 17th centuries on the basis of a study of river traffic. Author(s): Suttor, M.    Chapter: 3 (Page no: 37)  \'The coveted tree\': the industrial threat to the Vosges forest in the 16th and 18th centuries. Author(s): Garnier, E.    Chapter: 4 (Page no: 49)  The war of the plants: botanical exchange and agricultural conquest of the New World during colonial times. Author(s): Amodio, E.    Chapter: 5 (Page no: 65)  The historic evolution of the Haitian forest. Author(s): Hatzenberger, F.    Chapter: 6 (Page no: 79)  Forests and forestry culture in Tuscany in the 18th and 19th centuries. Author(s): Nanni, P.    Chapter: 7 (Page no: 93)  Earlier images of the Amazon in the USA. Author(s): Sedrez, L. F.    Chapter: 8 (Page no: 109)  The tree and the machine: manufacture, communities and institutions in the woods of southern Italy. Author(s): Armiero, M.    Chapter: 9 (Page no: 119)  The Muniellos Forests (Asturias, Spain) in history. Author(s): Pablo Torrente, J.    Chapter: 10 (Page no: 127)  A French illusion: the scarcity of forest resources, 1814-1914. Author(s): Corvol-Dessert, A.    Chapter: 11 (Page no: 143)  Shortage of wood? Towards a new approach in forest history: the Palatinate in the 19th century. Author(s): Grewe, B. S.    Chapter: 12 (Page no: 153)  Socio-economic development and changing mental concepts (re)shaping the woods in a German region of low mountain ranges: contributions of a study on a regional level to the discussion of major issues of forest history. Author(s): Modert, G.    Chapter: 13 (Page no: 161)  Historical interactions between agricultural and forest utilization in the Austrian alps and their impact on the present forest condition. Author(s): Johann, E.    Chapter: 14 (Page no: 171)  Exploiting the last phase of the North European Timber Frontier for the international market 1890-1914: an economic-historical approach. Author(s): Björklund, J.    Chapter: 15 (Page no: 185)  \'Impossible\' roads and \'inaccessible\' woods: aspects and problems of wood transport in the 18th century, southern Italy. Author(s): Gangemi, M.    Chapter: 16 (Page no: 195)  Parks, plebs and the picturesque: Sherwood forest as a contested landscape in later Georgian England, 1770-1830. Author(s): Cowell, B.    Chapter: 17 (Page no: 211)  Social and environmental determining factors of forest fire history: the case of eastern Andalusia, 1840-1890. Author(s): Cruz Artacho, S. Gonzales de Molina, M. Núñez Delgado, M. Ortega, A.    Chapter: 18 (Page no: 223)  Common woodlands in Mediterranean societies: commercial management versus forms of peasant resistance in Andalusia (Spain), 1750-1930. Author(s): Ortega Santos, A.    Chapter: 19 (Page no: 237)  Biodiversity conservation in Central Himalaya: a people\'s approach. Author(s): Rawat, A. S.    Chapter: 20 (Page no: 253)  People\'s struggle against the institution of royal forest reserves in England in the 11th-14th centuries. Author(s): Serovayskay, J. J.    Chapter: 21 (Page no: 263)  In the wood of neglect. Author(s): Dargavel, J.    Chapter: 22 (Page no: 279)  Law, forest resources and management of territory in the late Middle Ages: woodlands in Tuscan municipal statutes. Author(s): Salvestrini, F.    Chapter: 23 (Page no: 289)  A brief history of forest changes in the Sila Greca mountains. Author(s): Gallo, M. A. Iovino, F.    Chapter: 24 (Page no: 307)  Economic culture and forest policy in Italy, 1861-1915. Author(s): Raffaelli, T.    Chapter: 25 (Page no: 313)  Forest policy and public forest production in Spain, 1855-1936. Author(s): Gallego Martínez, D. Jiménez Blanco, J. I. Sebastián Amarilla, J. A. Zambrana Pineda, J. F. Zapata Blanco, S.    Chapter: 26 (Page no: 321)  Economic policy and forest resources in Spain: the case of the province of Pontevedra, 1926-1956. Author(s): Rico Boquete, E.    Chapter: 27 (Page no: 337)  The impact of five forest commissions on the history and practice of forestry in British Columbia, Canada. Author(s): Mitchell-Banks, P.    Chapter: 28 (Page no: 351)  A brief history of Italian forest policy. Author(s): Freschi, A. L. Hermanin, L.    Chapter: 29 (Page no: 363)  A history of the French coniferous forest. Author(s): Moriniaux, V.    Chapter: 30 (Page no: 371)  Imagining and creating forests in Britain, 1890-1939. Author(s): Tsouvalis, J. Watkins, C.    Chapter: 31 (Page no: 387)  Some aspects of forest management in Spain from the 16th to the 19th century. Author(s): Manuel, C. M.    Chapter: 32 (Page no: 397)  The impact of economic, social and political factors on the ecology of small English woodlands: a case study of the ancient woods in South Yorkshire, England. Author(s): Rotherham, I. D. Jones, M.