Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th - 19th Centuries

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Introduction: The Game of the Demiurge in the Garden of Chronos: Woods play hide-and-seek in the long run through sustainable management
1. The global timber trade and shipbuilding in the 16th–18th centuries: Interdisciplinarity, research problems and the ForSEAdiscovery project
2. Durable forests in a tensile state: Intensive and extensive approaches to naval forestry in Early Modern Spain
3. Empirical silviculture and sustainability in the Basque Country during the Early Modern period
4. The sustainability of forests for shipbuilding: A historical-archaeological view of Biscayan shipbuilding and its forestry tradition in the 16th–17th centuries
5. The beginnings of the preservation and development of Spanish forestry for naval construction: The legal and silvicultural enquiries conducted by the Royal Council of Castile in Guipúzcoa (1569)
6. “In all this kingdom there is no timber”: Wood for the king’s galleys: exploitation and conservation of the Catalan forests in the age of Lepanto
7. “A destruction that preserves”: Maritime warfare, empirical forestry and sustainability in Portugal (13th–17th centuries)
8. Sustainability assessment of forest resources in the geographical area of application of the 1546 Cork Oak Law
9. Logistics, sustainability and river transport of wood supplies from the Navarrese Pyrenees for the Royal Navy at the end of the 18th century
10. Forests in Portugal, 1750s–1820s: A history of forests compensation
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