Forestry and water conservation in South Africa history, science and policy
This innovative interdisciplinary study focuses on the history, science, and policy of tree planting and water conservation in South Africa. South Africa’s forestry sector has sat - often controversially - at the crossroads of policy and scientific debates regarding water conservation, economic deve...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, ACT, Australia :
ANU Press
2015
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| Colección: | World forest history series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428381006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. 'Fit the tree to the climate": the cape model of forestry
- 2. Forestry in reconstruction South Africa: imperial schemes, colonial realities, c. 1901-1905
- 3. Education a nascent 'South African' Forestry Corps, 1880-1932
- 4. Afforestation: politics, labour, and science, c. 1910-1935
- 5. Competing agendas? afforestation, catchment management and indigenous forests, c. 1910-1935
- 6. 1935: the Fourth British Empire Forestry conference in South Africa and the origins of a consensus science program
- 7. Jonkershoek as fulcrum: the forest hydrological research program
- 8. Forest hydrology in the policy domain
- 9. 1965 to 1995: fluctuating fortunes and final dividends
- 10. Devotution, drift and new directions, 1990-2014.
