Timber, science and statecraft: the emergence of modern forest resource economic thought in Germany

Viitala, Esa-Jussi

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“…The practice of measuring timber volumes has been a key component of forestry since forests turned into modern sites of state productivity. In the late eighteenth century, forests became spaces for some of the most ambitious practices of surveying, measurement and calculation in the wake of the Enlightenment's quantifying spirit (Warde 2018, 200; Viitala 2016, 1040; Lowood 1990, 317). Rendering trees into volumes via standardized volumetric methods played a key role in such technical processes of forest rationalization (Scott 1998, 12; see also Warde 2018, 207).…”

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“…Rendering trees into volumes via standardized volumetric methods played a key role in such technical processes of forest rationalization (Scott 1998, 12; see also Warde 2018, 207). Early scientific foresters did not, however, primarily aim to measure and calculate current volumes of wood in a given forest; rather, they sought to optimize wood stocks by securing as much wood as possible in the future (Warde 2018, 180; Viitala 2016, 1044.) Foresters thus became increasingly concerned with understanding the intricacies of tree growth rates and with organizing forest management through principles of sustainable optimization and efficiency amenable to their future‐oriented goals (Lowood 1990, 338.…”

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“…) Importantly, I show how such calculation grammars are neither universal nor statically constructed. Following Helen Verran's study of numbering in Yorubaland, I suggest that such disparate ways of envisioning volumes emerge from historically contingent sets of ritualized practices that, crucially, are grounded on different mathematical figurations of the physicality of logs (Verran 2001). In this sense, I consider the very mathematical structure of volumetric formulas and the technical procedures by which tropical timber is measured as sites of intense political and affective elaboration that merit specific ethnographic scrutiny.…”

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Recent years have witnessed the advancement of several technocratic interventions in the context of the global environmental crisis that aim to calculate and track different objects of environmental concern at various scales. In this article, I focus on how such technocratic interventions are transforming the processes by which tropical timber is technically rendered into calculational abstractions known as “volumes” in Peru’s tropical timber supply chains. Drawing on twenty-four months of fieldwork following the activities of loggers, timber industrialists, and state technocrats across Peru’s Amazonian region of Loreto, I show how calculational abstractions can never fully circumvent the frictions of power, history, and bodily experience. Rather, technocratic interventions aiming to standardize tropical timber-calculation procedures ultimately transform volumes into fertile ethnographic terrains from which to appreciate how competing forms of political imagination intersect and collide with each other as Amazonia enters the age of climate change and biodiversity loss. RESUMEN Durante los últimos años, distintas intervenciones tecnocráticas han sido desplegadas en el contexto de la crisis ambiental global con el fin de calcular y trazar distintos objetos de preocupación ambiental a distintas escalas. En este artículo, me centro en cómo estas intervenciones tecnocráticas están transformando los procesos por los cuales la madera tropical es convertida en abstracciones calculacionales llamadas “volúmenes” dentro de las cadenas de suministro de madera tropical del Perú. Sobre la base de veinticuatro meses de trabajo de campo siguiendo las actividades de madereros, industriales y tecnócratas del Estado en la región amazónica de Loreto, muestro cómo las abstracciones calculacionales nunca pueden escapar del todo de las fricciones del poder, la historia y la experiencia corporal. Más bien, las intervenciones tecnocráticas que buscan estandarizar los procedimientos de calculo sobre la madera tropical transforman los volúmenes en terrenos etnográficos fértiles desde los cuales es posible apreciar cómo distintas formas de imaginación política se intersectan y colisionan al tiempo que la Amazonía ingresa a la era del cambio climático y la perdida de biodiversidad.

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“…Point t b would be an economically optimal rotation if the interest rate of the forest owner is 0%. A higher interest rate would make the optimal rotation shorter [33].…”

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Growth Equations in Forest Research: Mathematical Basis and Model Similarities

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no pasa nada Purpose of Review Growth equations have been widely used in forest research, commonly to assess ecosystemlevel behaviour and forest management. Nevertheless, the large number of growth equations has obscured the growth-rate behaviour of each of these equations and several different terms for referring to common phenomena. This review presents a unified mathematical treatment of growth-rates besides several well-known growth equations by giving their mathematical basis and representing their behaviour using tree growth data as an example.Recent Findings We highlight the mathematical differences among several growth equations that can be better understood by using their differential equations forms rather than their integrated forms. Moreover, the assumed-and-claimed biological basis of these growthrate models has been taken too seriously in forest research. The focus should be on using a plausible equation for the organism being modelled. We point out that more attention should be drawn to parameter estima-

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“…Pese a la envergadura del reto, no hubo palabra nueva de la que no acreditara su etimología y significado. Así, en el primer artículo del primer número de la Revista Forestal, Económica y Agrícola Moser, además, es con Carlowitz, uno de los primeros autores en anticipar un concepto absolutamente contemporáneo, el de sostenibilidad (Schmithüsen, 2013;Grobe, 2007), que en 1713 fue denominado como "nachaltigkeit" por Hans Carl von Carlowitz (Viitala, 2016;Radkau 1996), y en 1868 Pascual traduciría como "renta rentada." Una "nachhaltige Wirtschaft" (economía sostenible) describió Moser en 1757 como una que es razonable, justa y sabia como es seguro que el hombre no debe vivir sólo para sí mismo, sino para los demás y para la posteridad (Moser, 1757, 31).…”

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Agustín Pascual y los inicios de la dasonomía en España

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julio) que las traspone. El convenio obliga a incorporar a "afectados" no expertos en la toma de decisiones. 10 Algunos consideran que esta pericia local no suele ser suficiente para enfrentarse con muchos de los desafíos medioambientales contemporáneos (Carolan, 2006, 424) mientras que otros estiman que cuando 13 24 Arias citará a los ilustrados más destacados en su lucha por el fomento de los montes: No deberemos estrañar que el erudito

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Timber, science and statecraft: the emergence of modern forest resource economic thought in Germany

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