Environmental history

Forests from global and regional perspectives (P. Szabó)

Lecture structure

  • Definition of forest
  • Deforestation
  • Timber frontier, colonization
  • Forest management: traditional vs modern
  • Forest transition

09 Forests in regional and global perspectives
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Supplementary reading

  • CHAZDON, R. L., BRANCALION, P. H., LAESTADISU, L., BENNET-CURRY, A., ... & WILSON, S. J. (2016) When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration. Ambio 45: 538-550.
  • MUIGG, B., SKIADARESIS, G., TEGEL, W., HERZIG, F., KRUSIC, P.J., SCHMIDT, U.E., & BÜNTGEN, U. (2020). Tree rings reveal signs of Europe’s sustainable forest management long before the first historical evidence. Scientific reports 10: 21832.
  • PLUYMERS, K. (2021) No wood, no kingdom: political ecology in the English Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • SZABÓ, P., DINIZ, É. S.  & HOUŠKA, J. (2023) Traditional agroforestry on forested land: a comprehensive analysis of its distribution pattern in the 19th century. Agroforestry Systems: early online. 
  • WILLIAMS, M. (2003) Deforesting the earth: from prehistory to global crisis. University of Chicago Press.

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