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This book examines the environmental effects and learning that plagued commercial projects in frontier projects. Including cases from Europe, the Americas, Oceania and Africa in the period between 1750 and 1990, it contributes to understanding of how environments are valued as they are traded in commercial systems.
List of contents
Introduction: Trading Environments 1. Commercial Knowledge and Environmental Transformation on and Through Frontiers
Gordon M. Winder and Andreas Dix 2. Consumption History and Changing Environments
Andreas Dix Frontier Environments 3. New Frontiers and Natural Resources in Southern South America, c. 1820-1870: Examples from Northwest European Mercantile Enterprise
Stephen Bell 4. Opening Up Untouched Woodlands: Forestry Experts Reflecting on and Driving the Timber Frontier in Northern Europe, 1880-1914
Christian Lotz Valuing Environments 5. Problems with Nature in the Trading Environments of the McCormick Reaper, 1850-1902
Gordon M. Winder 6. Valuing Wetlands and Peatlands: Mires in the Natural Resource and Land Use Policies in the Nordic Countries from the Late 18th Century to the Present Day
Esa Ruuskanen 7. Lands for Settlement, Forests and Scenic Reserves: Nature and Value in New Zealand, 1890s to 1920s
Michael Roche 8. Reimagining the Tropical Beef Frontier and the Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia
Shawn Van Ausdal Competing Modernist Logics 9. Industrializing Forests and Naturalizing Industrialization: Forests, Pulp Wood and Environmental Transformations, 1860-1930
Mathias Mutz 10. Trading Degradation for Conservation: Revaluing Rural Landscapes in the American South
Craig E. Colten 11. Japan, Iceland and the Destruction of the American Fishing Industry
Carmel Finley Environmental Trading 12. Frontier Exchanges: Commercial Calculation and Environmental Transformation
Gordon M. Winder and Andreas Dix
About the author
Gordon M. Winder is Professor of Economic Geography and an Affiliated Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU-Munich.
Andreas Dix is Professor for Historical Geography, Institute of Geography, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
Summary
This book examines the environmental effects and learning that plagued commercial projects in frontier projects. Including cases from Europe, the Americas, Oceania and Africa in the period between 1750 and 1990, it contributes to understanding of how environments are valued as they are traded in commercial systems.
