Chinas Forests

Author : Meng Zhang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295748885
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Timber and Forestry in Qing China written by Meng Zhang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 282 pages. 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
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317368592
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Forests written by William F. Hyde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forestry and Forest Policy are key issues for the protection of China’s natural environment and for its continued economic development. Originally published in 2003, the contributors to this title review the successes of China’s forest policies and the growth of its forests over the past quarter-century and examine the challenges facing China’s forests and rural environment. China’s Forests: Global Lessons from Market Reforms is a valuable resource for students interested in environmental studies, international forest policy, and the modern development of China.

Author : Ian M. Miller
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029574734X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fir and Empire written by Ian M. Miller and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones. Miller demonstrates that this form of forest management generally rested on private ownership under relatively distant state oversight and taxation. He further draws on in-depth case studies of shipbuilding and imperial logging to argue that this novel landscape was not created through simple extractive pressures, but by attempts to incorporate institutional and ecological complexity into a unified imperial state. Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Because dominant European forestry models do not neatly overlap with the non-Western world, China’s history is often left out of global conversations about them; Miller’s work rectifies this omission and suggests that in some ways, China’s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.

Author : N. Menzies
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230372872
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forest and Land Management in Imperial China written by N. Menzies and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although China is generally considered to have suffered continuous deforestation over most of its history, forests were protected or even planted and maintained for centuries in some places. This study identifies six such cases. It uses historical evidence to show that individuals and communities act to manage resources sustainably for a number of reasons including economic benefit, religious or symbolic purposes, and that sustainability of the management system depends on the form of control exerted over the resource.

Author : Tao-yang Ling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chapters on China and Forestry written by Tao-yang Ling and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley Dennis Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forests and Forestry in China written by Stanley Dennis Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the socio-political effects of forestry in China in recent decades and forestry's importance to China's future. Included is a comprehensive look at harvesting, sawmilling, tariffs and foreign exchange, pulp and paper production, seed collection, urban forestry, and soil erosion. Shows how the Chinese people are attempting to solve their problems and become self-sufficient in areas of industrial timber and fuelwood.

Author : William F. Hyde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781936331239
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Forests written by William F. Hyde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-07 with total page 241 pages. 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.

Author : Norman Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Supply written by Norman Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Han Lin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787119061061
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living green China's forests written by Han Lin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shengxian Zhou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 981265285X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forestry in China written by Shengxian Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the current state of China's forestry industry. Explains that the transition from a focus on timber production to ecological development is inevitable, and a major breakthrough for forestry development in China.