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For more than twenty years, Australia's forests have been the subject of angry controversy. Industry groups, timber towns, professional foresters, trade unions, economists, developers and environmentalists have all voiced different proposals, based on mutually exclusive values.The major forest contests have aroused intense passions and influenced elections. But this book is more than a survey of recent events. It reviews forest management from pre-European times, demonstrating that the physical structure of forests, and our conceptions of them, are socially constructed.
John Dargavel weaves together the story of industrial development and forest use with the slow acceptance of the case for forest conservancy. He shows how various ‘resource regimes’ evolved, and how they fashioned the forests in different ways: ecologically, spatially and socially. He then describes the challenges to these established patterns since the 1970s: industrial restructuring, woodchip exports, unsustainable harvesting and the rise of the environmental movement.
Fashioning Australia's Forests concludes with a chapter on the prospects for the forests, their industries and workers in a highly uncertain future.
CONTENTS:
Patterns of Australia forests
Introduction
Fashioning, 1850s to 1960s:
1. Forests for home and empire
2. Forests for industrialisation
3. Forests for conservation and delight
Changing, 1970s to 1980s:
4. Forests for Japan
5. Forests for work and regional development
6. Forests for existence and experience
Contesting, from the 1970s:
7. Contesting existence, ecology and experience
8. Contesting industries and regions
9. Contesting politics and the state
Creating, 1990s and beyond:
10. Forest prospects in a changing worldNOTE: This is an Ex-Library book. It has been covered with clear contact paper and has a library index number on the spine. The first page has a green dot and a barcode stuck on it. The library's loan sheet is still attached. Other than that the book is unmarked, complete, and in excellent condition.
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