Forests, Climate, and the Rise of Scientific Forestry in Russia: From Local Knowledge and Natural History to Modern Experiments (1840s–early 1890s)

Fedotova, Anastasia; Лоскутова, Марина

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“…Geographers, inspired by Alexander von Humboldt's studies on climates and plant distribution (von Humboldt, 1817; von Humboldt & Bonpland, 1805), began to address problems in agricultural meteorology and their work has been explored by a growing number of historians in recent years (e.g., Güttler, 2015; Phillips, 2015). Research on plant distribution also stimulated an interest in the relationship between forests and climate (Fedotova & Loskutova, 2015) and contributions to agricultural meteorology came also from forestry throughout the 20th century, although forest meteorology is rather considered a separate discipline today.…”

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Weather, climate, and agriculture: Historical contributions and perspectives from agricultural meteorology

Parolini

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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All over the world, farming communities need to adapt to a changing climate. At the same time, they are confronted by the necessity to increase food availability for a growing population, but also to ensure a sustainable use of natural resources. In this process, agriculture is not just the fiend responsible for an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, nor the victim of rising temperatures and extreme weather events. Agriculture is also an ally in climate change mitigation and adaptation because the selection of ad hoc crop varieties and livestock can lower the environmental impact of farming and the implementation of better management practices can promote soil conservation. Whether agriculture will have a positive or a negative impact on climate change adaptation and mitigation will depend on the rural policies implemented, but it will also be contingent on an adequate understanding of the interconnections existing between weather, climate, and farming. This review explores such interconnections by focusing on the history of agricultural meteorology, which is the research field that studies the impact of weather and climate on crops, livestock, farming operations, and plant and animal pests and diseases. The article discusses stakeholders, institutions, and main developments in agricultural meteorology, and describes how the agenda of agricultural meteorology has shifted over time. At the beginning of the 20th century, research in agricultural meteorology focused on increasing the profitability of farming. In the 21st century, instead, the main goal of agricultural meteorology is to ensure food security and guarantee sustainability.

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Weather, climate, and agriculture: Historical contributions and perspectives from agricultural meteorology

Parolini

2022

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“…For instance, Marina Loskutova observes a Humboldtian disposition among the Russian government officials charged with creating climate maps in the 1840s and Deborah Coen proposes that a continental orientation of Russian researchers on Turkestan in Central Asia united them with imperial climatographers working on the Habsburg Alps (Coen, ; Feklova, ; Loskutova, ). Looking at experimental forestry stations, Anastasia Fedotova and Loskutova argue for an important shift among Russian scientists from climate being “a broad philosophical concept, which in the early nineteenth century encompassed a variety of natural and even moral phenomena, to a much more specific set of variables” (Fedotova & Loskutova, , p. 132).…”

Section: Histories Of Russian Climate Sciencementioning

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Climate history of Russia and the Soviet Union

Bruno

2018

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Russia and the Soviet Union bear great significance for global climate history, but scholarship on this region is still only beginning to develop as a field. While the historiographies of other geographical locations have matured over the past decade, works concerning Russia thus far have appeared in a piecemeal and somewhat disconnected fashion, not yet cohering in a systematic way. Instead, there exist several insightful threads in the environmental history literature on climate. Scholars have examined the history of climate science in Russia, extending from the research of the Academy of Sciences in the eighteenth century to the global thinking about climate change in the late twentieth century. Social scientists have explored the historical roots of Russia's contemporary climate policy. Disasters related to climate have long attracted the attention of historians, though newer works are more in tune with contemporary scholarship on vulnerability and risk. There has also been movement to analyze the varied experiences of the cold in Russia over the long haul. Making an asset out of its apparent lower stage of development, the field of Russian climate history has an opportunity to directly enter advanced scholarly conversations by focusing on the ubiquitous human experiences with climate. Doing so could allow Russian climate history to acquire a position as an innovator among global climate histories. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > World Historical Perspectives

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“…Before the industrial revolution, the impact of humans on forests was of low significance due to small human population, primitive tools, low demand for timber and its products. In the conditions of scientific and industrial development and urbanization, this demand grew, and it negatively impacted forest areas (Birks, Tinner, 2016;Fedotova, Loskutova 2015;Hansen et al 2013). In order to understand the scale of the reduction of forest areas, it is important to identify former forest areas, simulate their change, taking into account the growth of the human population, as well as industrial, agricultural and urban development.…”

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Investigation of the Change of Wooded Aareas in Forest Land in Raudone Eldership

Puzienė

2021

Baltic Surveying

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Under the conditions of a global reduction in forest areas and climate change, it is important to preserve as many tree-covered areas as possible and understand change trends. The article purpose – aims at identifying forest area change trends of 19th-20th c. in the current forest land of the eldership Raudonė. In the research, historical topographic maps compiled during different periods, and 2019 data from the forest registry are used. The research method of a comparative analysis is employed. The change in forest areas was analysed, and forest areas that remained unchanged for 200 years were identified. The comparison of current forest areas reflected in the cadastral data and forest areas of the considered period allowed identifying the tendency of assigning land the purpose of forest land. During the research, the period with largest forest areas was determined to be the 19th c., and with the smallest – 1st half of the 20th c. During the Soviet period, forests areas were increasing, but did not achieve the same level as in the 19th c.

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Forests, Climate, and the Rise of Scientific Forestry in Russia: From Local Knowledge and Natural History to Modern Experiments (1840s–early 1890s)

Cited by 6 publications

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Weather, climate, and agriculture: Historical contributions and perspectives from agricultural meteorology

Weather, climate, and agriculture: Historical contributions and perspectives from agricultural meteorology

Climate history of Russia and the Soviet Union

Investigation of the Change of Wooded Aareas in Forest Land in Raudone Eldership

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