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Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa : History, Science and Policy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Forest History SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925022841
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forestry and Water Conservation in South AfricaDDC classification:
  • 634.95609679999995
LOC classification:
  • SD409 .B466 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. 'Fit the Tree to the Climate': The Cape Model of Forestry -- 2. Forestry in Reconstruction South Africa: Imperial Schemes, Colonial Realities, c. 1901-1905 -- 3. Educating a Nascent 'South African' Forestry Corps, 1880-1932 -- 4. Afforestation: Politics, Labour, and Science, c. 1910-1935 -- 5. Competing Agendas? Afforestation, Catchment Management and Indigenous Forests, c. 1910-1935 -- 6. 1935: The Fourth British Empire Forestry Conference in South Africa and the Origins of a Consensus Science Program -- 7. Jonkershoek as Fulcrum: The Forest Hydrological Research Program -- 8. Forest Hydrology in the Policy Domain -- 9. 1965 to 1995: Fluctuating Fortunes and Final Dividends -- 10. Devolution, Drift and New Directions, 1990-2014 -- Selected Bibliography.
Summary: This innovative interdisciplinary study focuses on the history, science, and policy of tree planting and water conservation in South Africa. South Africa's forestry sector has sat--often controversially--at the crossroads of policy and scientific debates regarding water conservation, economic development, and biodiversity protection.
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Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. 'Fit the Tree to the Climate': The Cape Model of Forestry -- 2. Forestry in Reconstruction South Africa: Imperial Schemes, Colonial Realities, c. 1901-1905 -- 3. Educating a Nascent 'South African' Forestry Corps, 1880-1932 -- 4. Afforestation: Politics, Labour, and Science, c. 1910-1935 -- 5. Competing Agendas? Afforestation, Catchment Management and Indigenous Forests, c. 1910-1935 -- 6. 1935: The Fourth British Empire Forestry Conference in South Africa and the Origins of a Consensus Science Program -- 7. Jonkershoek as Fulcrum: The Forest Hydrological Research Program -- 8. Forest Hydrology in the Policy Domain -- 9. 1965 to 1995: Fluctuating Fortunes and Final Dividends -- 10. Devolution, Drift and New Directions, 1990-2014 -- Selected Bibliography.

This innovative interdisciplinary study focuses on the history, science, and policy of tree planting and water conservation in South Africa. South Africa's forestry sector has sat--often controversially--at the crossroads of policy and scientific debates regarding water conservation, economic development, and biodiversity protection.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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