Conservation’s Roots

Abigail P. Dowling is an Assistant Professor of History at Mercer University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionRichard Keyser and Abigail P. DowlingPart I. Multiple-Use Resource Management in Preindustrial Societies: Pigs, Parks, Game, and HeathlandsChapter 1. Controlling Pigs in Countryside and City for Sustainable Medieval AgricultureDolly JørgensenChapter 2. Sustainability and Natural Resource Management at Hesdin, Artois, France, 1302–1329Abigail P. DowlingChapter 3. Eating Your Game and Having It Too: North-Central Italian Conservation of Game Animals and Birds, 1300–1550Cristina Arrigoni MartelliChapter 4. Sustaining Premodern Heathlands (1400–1750): Collective Knowledge and Peasant Communities in the Campine, BelgiumMaïka De KeyzerPart II. The Governance of Aquatic Resources: Fishing and Flowing FreshwaterChapter 5. Fisheries Regulations in Late Medieval Europe: Authorities, Concerns, MeasuresRichard C. HoffmannChapter 6. Managing the Lake Constance Fisheries, ca. 1350–1800Michael ZeheterChapter 7. Keep the Water Flowing! Premodern Swedish Water ManagementEva JakobssonPart III. The Deep Roots of Woodland ConservationChapter 8. The Medieval Roots of Woodland Conservation: Northern France and Northwestern Europe, ca. 1100-1500Richard KeyserChapter 9. Managing Southern French Forests under—and before—Colbert: Between Law and Custom, ca. 1500-1700Sébastien PoublancChapter 10. Conserving the ‘Vert’ in Early Modern Sherwood ForestSara MorrisonChapter 11. Sustainability Prior to Carlowitz’s Sylvicultura? A Study Based on Cases from Schleswig-HolsteinOliver AugeChapter 12. Traditional Woodland Management, Forest Legislation, and Modern Nature Conservation in East-Central EuropePéter SzabóAfterwordPaul WardeIndex

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