Conservation’s Roots

Abigail P. Dowling is an Assistant Professor of History at Mercer University.

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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