Forest and land management in Imperial China / Nicholas K. Menzies.
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Menzies, Nicholas K. (författare)
- ISBN 0333600487
- Publicerad: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994
- Engelska ix, 175 p.
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Forestry and Ethnic Minorities. Why Plant Trees: Enforcement or Incentives? -- 7. Beyond Timber: Fuelwood, Sericulture and Fungi. Fuelwood and Charcoal. Silk and Edible Fungi -- 8. In the Depths of the Mountains: Logging the Old Growth. Bandits, Logging, and the Pacification of the Wilderness. Economic Links: Markets and the timing of Logging Operations. Control and Enforcement. Constraints on Settlement and Conversion -- 9. Discussion and Conclusions. Enforcement and Compliance. Deforestation or Forest Management - some Issues -- App. Methods Used in the Study -- App. Sources -- References in Western Languages -- References in Chinese and Japanese -- Local and Temple Gazetteers -- Personal Communications.
- The historical pattern of land use in China has been described as a process of clearance of forest for conversion to agriculture. There is evidence though that forests were protected, maintained, or intensively managed in some places, often for periods of several centuries.
- This book describes six examples of managed forests varying from the Imperial Hunting Enclosure in north-eastern China to intensively cultivated small-scale systems where timber was grown as a commercial product intercropped with other cash crops. The author shows that individuals and communities acted to manage resources for a number of reasons including economic benefit, and religious or symbolic purposes. Users adopted different management strategies to suit their own organisational capacities and changing social and economic conditions.
- Sustainability of these management systems depended on the users' ability to control access to and utilisation of the resource, and their ability to adjust to changes over time.
Ämnesord
- Forests and forestry -- China -- History. (LCSH)
- Deforestation -- China -- History. (LCSH)
- Forests and forestry -- Economic aspects -- China -- History. (LCSH)
- Forest management -- China -- History. (LCSH)
- Land tenure -- China -- History. (LCSH)
- Skogsbruk -- ekonomiska aspekter -- historia -- Kina (sao)
- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. (LCSH)
- 1644-1912 (Qingdynastin, Kina) (sao)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Forests
- Qf Skogsbruk
Klassifikation
- 634.9 (DDC)
- Qf-oa (kssb/8)
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