Managing Northern Europe's Forests (eBook)

Richard Hölzl is a researcher for the German Science Foundation at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of a book on scientific forestry in Germany (Umkämpfte Wälder, 2010) and co-editor of a collection on the global history of missions (Mission Global, 2013). His article “Historicizing Sustainability” in Science as Culture was awarded the 2011 Best Article Prize by the European Society for Environmental History.

K. Jan Oosthoek is an environmental historian based in Brisbane, Australia. He is author of Conquering the Highlands: A History of the Afforestation of the Scottish Uplands (2013). He has also served as vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History (2005–2007) and manages the website “Environmental History Resources” (www.eh-resources.org).

List of tables, maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: State Forestry in Northern Europe
Richard Hölzl and K. Jan Oosthoek

Chapter 1. Forestry in Germany, c1550-2000
Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Richard Hölzl

Chapter 2. State Forestry in the Netherlands: from Liberalism to Nature Creation
K. Jan Oosthoek

Chapter 3. State forestry in Belgium since the End of the Eighteenth Century
Pierre-Alain Tallier, Hilde Verboven, Kris Vandekerkhove, Hans Baeté and Kris Verheyen

Chapter 4. Origins and Development of State Forestry in the United Kingdom
K. Jan Oosthoek

Chapter 5. State and Forestry in Denmark from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Bo Fritzbøger

Chapter 6. State Forestry in Norway
Lars Helge Frivold and Asbjørn Svendsrud

Chapter 7. Swedish State Forestry, 1790-2000
Per Eliasson and Erik Törnlund

Chapter 8. Finnish Forestry in a Long-Term Perspective
Heikki Roiko-Jokela

Chapter 9. The History of State Forests and Forestry in Poland
Anna Majchrowska

Conclusion: National Histories, Shared Legacies: State Forestry in Northern Europe in Comparison
Richard Hölzl and K. Jan Oosthoek

Glossary of terms
Index