Woodland Landscapes in British and Irish Forests from 1700: Change, Management and Meaning

Description:

This Palgrave Pivot offers an original, historically grounded perspective on British and Irish involvement in ecological landscapes. Contemporary concerns over woodland landscapes and the management of these precious ecological habitats have generated a powerful political demand for reforestation and conservation. Debates over these environmental policies have largely taken place without an awareness of the historical contexts that helped to create these landscapes. Based on original archival research into several case studies, this book explores the social, economic, cultural and political forces that have created British and Irish woodlands.

* Examines historical contexts that created landscapes of reforestation and conservation of British and Irish woodlands.

* Places woodland histories in direct conversation with the most pressing issues in current woodland management practice.

* Discusses how woodlands and imagination have figured into mythical/literal landscapes of the British Isles since 1700.