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Author : Norman Shaw
Release : 1914
Genre : Forests and forestry
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Book Synopsis Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Supply by : Norman Shaw
Download or read book Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Supply written by Norman Shaw. This book was released on 1914. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Supply, by Norman Shaw,... by : Norman Shaw
Download or read book Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Supply, by Norman Shaw,... written by Norman Shaw. This book was released on 1914. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Shaw
Release : 1914
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Book Synopsis Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Supply ... With a map and 33 illustrations by : Norman Shaw
Download or read book Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Supply ... With a map and 33 illustrations written by Norman Shaw. This book was released on 1914. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meng Zhang
Release : 2021-06-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Timber and Forestry in Qing China by : Meng Zhang
Download or read book Timber and Forestry in Qing China written by Meng Zhang. This book was released on 2021-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Qing period (1644–1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. She documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, she considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development.
Author : William F. Hyde
Release : 2010-09-30
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis China's Forests by : William F. Hyde
Download or read book China's Forests written by William F. Hyde. This book was released on 2010-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International concerns about greenhouse gases and threats to biodiversity, as well as regional concerns about water supply, erosion control, watersheds, and local economic well-being make the study of forest policy more important than ever before. Understanding the factors that affect the forest environment in China, the country with the world's largest population and one of its most dynamic economies, is a critical step toward improving the long-term welfare of the global community. This is the first book to comprehensively evaluate the effects of forest policy as it has followed or extended from agricultural, trade, and other reforms that began in 1978. Among the issues it addresses are the pressures exerted by the growing economy on the forest environment, the environmental effects of extractive activities, the property rights arrangements that have fostered the most sustainable management practices, and the contribution that forestry can make as an agent of development. China's Forest Policy pays particular attention to China's successful use of economic incentives. As a laboratory for policy reforms, the geographic breadth of China, the diversity of its forest environments, and its extensive record of policy experimentation provides a rich supply of contrasting examples and statistically meaningful results. The analysis of these results offers important lessons for future policy reform in China and in almost every other nation in the world.
