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The ideas and practices that comprise "conservation" are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation's Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction Richard Keyser and Abigail P. Dowling Part I. Multiple-Use Resource Management in Preindustrial Societies: Pigs, Parks, Game, and Heathlands Chapter 1. Controlling Pigs in Countryside and City for Sustainable Medieval Agriculture
Dolly Jørgensen Chapter 2. Sustainability and Natural Resource Management at Hesdin, Artois, France, 1302-1329
Abigail P. Dowling Chapter 3. Eating Your Game and Having It Too: North-Central Italian Conservation of Game Animals and Birds, 1300-1550
Cristina Arrigoni Martelli Chapter 4. Sustaining Premodern Heathlands (1400-1750): Collective Knowledge and Peasant Communities in the Campine, Belgium
Maïka De Keyzer Part II. The Governance of Aquatic Resources: Fishing and Flowing Freshwater Chapter 5. Fisheries Regulations in Late Medieval Europe: Authorities, Concerns, Measures
Richard C. Hoffmann Chapter 6. Managing the Lake Constance Fisheries, ca. 1350-1800
Michael Zeheter Chapter 7. Keep the Water Flowing! Premodern Swedish Water Management
Eva Jakobsson Part III. The Deep Roots of Woodland Conservation Chapter 8. The Medieval Roots of Woodland Conservation: Northern France and Northwestern Europe, ca. 1100-1500
Richard Keyser Chapter 9. Managing Southern French Forests under-and before-Colbert: Between Law and Custom, ca. 1500-1700
Sébastien Poublanc Chapter 10. Conserving the 'Vert' in Early Modern Sherwood Forest
Sara Morrison Chapter 11. Sustainability Prior to Carlowitz's
Sylvicultura? A Study Based on Cases from Schleswig-Holstein
Oliver Auge Chapter 12. Traditional Woodland Management, Forest Legislation, and Modern Nature Conservation in East-Central Europe
Péter Szabó Afterword Paul Warde Index
Info autore
Abigail P. Dowling is an Assistant Professor of History at Mercer University.
Richard Keyser is a Senior Lecturer in the Legal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Riassunto
Conservation’s Roots illuminates the diversity of practices in premodern environmental history across Europe from the Middle Ages to the brink of modernity.
