Forestry in Germany, c.1550–2000:

Grewe, Bernd-Stefan; Hölzl, Richard

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“…However, in many areas, most people saw forest regulations as something positive and helpful, as long as customary userights were not discriminated. 513 In Kruunupyy, the county governor's regulation was not met with protest or general discontent. It is at least not expressed that way in the court records.…”

Section: The Ordinance Of Johan Graanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tar and timber : Governing forest commons in seventeenth century Northern Finland

Starlander¹

2023

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae

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This thesis investigates how peasants regulated and shared forest resources in North Ostrobothnia during the seventeenth century where large-scale tar and timber production took place. The forests were owned as commons by peasant communities on village and parish level and became increasingly exploited during the century. The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate how the growing importance of forest resources affected the ability of peasants to govern and share forest resources in a sustainable way. Focus is therefore put on the institutional organisation of peasant communities and emphasises the complexity of how governance within village and parish communities developed. Three interrelated dimensions of sustainability are considered: ecological, institutional, and economic sustainability. The thesis also seeks to explain how burghers and Swedish state officials influenced this development. This is done by qualitatively and quantitatively analysing local district protocols, maps, and Swedish legislation. The thesis shows how peasant communities achieved balance between the three dimensions of sustainability. This ensured that they did not undermine the ecological underpinnings on which they depended, that their institutional organisation remained robust, and that they could make a living. This was possible through the prioritisation of rules and borders through collective action. The thesis also shows an increasing level of nestedness within peasant communities. This development was both enabled and inhibited by the peasants’ relation to burghers and Swedish state officials who became involved in the nestedness of peasant institutions.

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Section: The Ordinance Of Johan Graanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tar and timber : Governing forest commons in seventeenth century Northern Finland

Starlander¹

2023

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae

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Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century

Jönsson

2024

Ambio

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This study aims to broaden our historical knowledge about ideas of rationalism and monocultures in forestry science and rational forest management. Empirically, it focuses on the writings of Swedish forestry scientist Henrik Hesselman, active in the early twentieth century. The texts were analyzed using the method of historical contextualization. The study indicates that monocultures historically have been subjected to debates richer than what previous research gives credit for. Besides a rationalist technology, monocultures have been conceptualized as an example of non-rational forestry failing to deliver sustainable yields. Moreover, instead of only simplifications, one-size-fits-all solutions, and top-down reforms, historical forestry science representatives have also at times understood rational forest management as a quest for complexity, site-specific solutions, and bottom-up approaches. It is argued that our understanding of forest use and society–environment relations, more generally, benefit from more historical contextualization.

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The changing perception of coppice with standards in German forestry literature up to the present day – From a universal solution to a defamed and overcome evil – and back?

VOLLMUTH¹

2022

Trees, Forests and People

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Forestry in Germany, c.1550–2000:

Cited by 3 publications

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Tar and timber : Governing forest commons in seventeenth century Northern Finland

Tar and timber : Governing forest commons in seventeenth century Northern Finland

Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century

The changing perception of coppice with standards in German forestry literature up to the present day – From a universal solution to a defamed and overcome evil – and back?

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