Methods and Approaches in Forest History (IUFRO Research Series, Volume 3)

Methods and Approaches in Forest History......Page 4
Cover\r......Page 1
IUFRO Research Series\r......Page 2
ISBN:  0851994202\r......Page 5
Contents\r......Page 6
Contributors\r......Page 10
Preface\r......Page 14
Introduction: the Development of Forest History Research\r......Page 16
1. Changing Roles of the Forest History Society: New Approaches to \rEnvironmental History in\rNorth America......Page 36
2. How Professional Historians Can Play a Useful Role in the Study of an Interdisciplinary Forest History\r......Page 44
3. Putting \'Flesh on the Carbon-Based Bones\' of Forest History\r......Page 50
4. Forest Management from Positivism to the Culture of \rComplexity......Page 62
5. Economic Areas and Forest Nature: the Search for Forest\rImages and the Understanding of Nature in the Past\r......Page 74
6. The Age and Size of Hazel \r(Corylus avellana L.) Stools of\rNatö Island, Aland Islands,\rSW Finland......Page 82
7. The Study of Charcoal-burning Sites in the Apennine Mountains of Liguria (NW Italy) as a Tool for Forest History\r......Page 94
8. Local Economic History, Environmental History and Forest History: Some Swedish Experiences and Suggestions\r......Page 108
9. Socioeconomical and Ecological Aspects of Coppice Woods History in the Lower Vosges (France) and the Black Forest (Germany)\r......Page 122
10. The Forest History of Boreal Sweden: a Multidisciplinary Approach\r......Page 134
11. Preindustrial Forests in Central Europe as Objects of Historical-Geographical Research\r......Page 144
12. Methods Towards Studying Historical Changes in Forest and Landscape Patterns: a Comparison between Two Nearby Socioeconomic Contexts\r......Page 154
13. Temporal and Spatial Changes in a Boreal Forest Landscape: \rGIS Applications......Page 172
14. Comparing Damages: Italian and American Concepts of Restoration\r......Page 180
15. Searching for Common Ground: Reconstructing Landscape History in East Africa\'s \rEastern Arc Mountains......Page 188
16. The \'Alnoculture\' System in the Ligurian Eastern Apennines:\rArchive Evidence\r......Page 204
17. Between Nature and Culture: the Contribution of Anthropology to Environmental Study\r......Page 218
18. Prehistoric Cultures and the Development of Woodlands\r......Page 230
19. Integration between Genetic and Archaeobotanical Data in a\rStudy on the Evolutionary History of Pinus halepensis Mill.\rPopulations in Southern Italy\r......Page 236
20. Xylology and Forest History\r......Page 248
21. Bristlecone Pines and Tales of Change in the Great Basin\r......Page 256
22. Biodiversity and Forest Management: From Biodiversity\rto Geochronodiversity\r......Page 266
23. Temporal Differences in Forest History at Two Sites in Eastern North America\r......Page 280
Index\r......Page 290