Knock on Wood

Nature as Commodity in Douglas-Fir Country
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-94401-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Prudham employs a political economic approach to explain the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry's presence in the region. As well, he provides a thorough accounting of the timber industry itself, tracing its motivations, practices, and labor relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prudham, W. Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 1 The Political Economy of an Ecological Crisis 2 Working the Land: Production Relations in Logging and Reforestation 3 Industrial Ecologies and Regional Geographies 4 Geographies of Scale and Scope in Lumbering 5 Toward Organic Machines: The Historical Political Economy of Douglas-Fir Tree Improvement 6 Timber and Down: The Rise and Fall of Sustained Yield Regulation in Oregon's Illinois Valley 7 Epilogue: Owls, Ecosystems, and the New Forestry

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Prudham is an assistant professor in the geography department at the University of Toronto.