Prudham Knock on Wood

Nature as Commodity in Douglas-Fir Country
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-07234-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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 Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

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.