From Practical Science to a Practice Based Approach: A Short History of Forest Policy Studies

Wiersum, K.F.; Arts, B.J.M.; Laar, Jim van

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“…Austrian forestry was directly and strongly influenced by German ideas and innovations from the forest-rich regions of Bohemia, Silesia and Moravia (Fernow 1911). It was a state-controlled profession based on quantitative methods devised to maintain or expand strategic resources through maximum sustainable yields and profit (Ciancio & Nocentini 1997;Wiersum et al 2013;Warde 2018) with an emphasis on maximum uniformity and preference for conifer monocultures (Lowood 1990;Radkau 1996;Watkins 2014). The German-adopted practice of clear-cutting imposed the need for more extensive reforestation in contrast to natural regeneration which was a characteristic of the previously dominant practice of selective cutting (K. K.…”

Section: The Beginnings Of Reforestationmentioning

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Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918

Tekić

Watkins

2021

Landscape History

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Reforestation has been one of the main forestry activities in the karst terrain of Dalmatia, Croatia, for more than a century. This paper examines the history behind reforestation schemes in Dalmatia, a kingdom at the periphery of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It explores how the ideas of Austrian foresters, based at the centre of Empire, were transmitted and put into practice. Late nineteenth-century forestry debates in contemporary forestry texts and the Šumarski lis,t the forestry journal published since 1877, are analysed and different narratives concerning the lack of woodland explored. The paper goes on to examine how reforestation of the karst was carried out in the region around Šibenik making use of local archives, historical maps, cadastral surveys, and photographs. Disputes between foresters and local villagers who wished to protect their grazing rights are uncovered and a link between the development of tourism and the selection of sites to be reforested is identified. KEYWORDSReforestation, Dalmatia, Šibenik, karst landscape, pine forests, forest history 1892). However, the Forestry College in Križevci in Croatia did not provide adequate training for the karst environment. Ettinger (1886) noticed that teaching largely focused on deriving value from timber, disregarding firewood collection and pastoralism which were the main woodland-based activities in karst areas. This is why Joseph Wessely (1814-98) (1877b), influential head of the Forestry Academy in Vienna, argued that it was imperative to establish a special forestry school in a karst area of the Empire; but this did not happen. Finally, with the establishment of a Forestry Academy in the University of Zagreb in 1898, Croatian (and Dalmatian) foresters were able to complete their education within Croatia (Anić et al. 2012).

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Section: The Beginnings Of Reforestationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918

Tekić

Watkins

2021

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“…Studies on sustainability have demonstrated that many principles striving towards the sustainable use of forest resources were already formulated during the Middle Ages driven by concern about overconsumption (Radkau, 2012;Grober, 2012;Wiersum et al, 2013). Definitions of sustainability have also been subject to historical change since the beginning of scientific forestry (Wiersum, 1995;Hölzl, 2010).…”

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Co-production of forestry science and society: Evolving interpretations of economic sustainability in Finnish forestry textbooks

Rytteri

Peltola

Leskinen

2016

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a b s t r a c tIn this article, we explore how forestry scientists have promoted and defended particular definitions of economic sustainability as a response to socio-economic challenges. Drawing on an analysis of Finnish forestry textbooks, we discuss the evolving conceptualizations in terms of co-production of scientific ideas and social orders. We argue that to fully understand what economic sustainability means in forestry one has to analyze the choices and preferences concerning the components of scientific ideas, and to identify links between these choices and the evolving societal discourses, social norms, rules of authority, power relations and partnerships, as well as historical events.

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“…Since the advent of professional forestry in the 17 th Century (Westoby, 1989;Wiersum, 1995;Wiersum et al, 2012), 3 | P a g e forest monitoring has been part and parcel of forest management, and has been implemented in different forms in many European countries. Systematic national forest monitoring however, began only in the early 19 th Century.…”

Section: Redd+ and New Demands For Forest Monitoring In Developing Comentioning

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The role of forests in climate change mitigation : a discursive-institutional analysis of REDD+ MRV

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From Practical Science to a Practice Based Approach: A Short History of Forest Policy Studies

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918

Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918

Co-production of forestry science and society: Evolving interpretations of economic sustainability in Finnish forestry textbooks

The role of forests in climate change mitigation : a discursive-institutional analysis of REDD+ MRV

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