Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest Ecosystem Change

This book presents edited and revised versions of more than 30 papers selected from those presented at a major conference on History and Forest Resources, held in Florence in 1998. The conference was organized by the Italian Academy of Forestry Science and working group on Forest History of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO). As a whole the papers present detailed analyses of the interrelationships between forest ecosystems and socioeconomic development from 13 di…