Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa
eBook - PDF

Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa

History, Science and Policy

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa

History, Science and Policy

About this book

This innovative interdisciplinary study focuses on the history, science, and policy of tree planting and water conservation in South Africa. South Africa's forestry sector has sat—often controversially—at the crossroads of policy and scientific debates regarding water conservation, economic development, and biodiversity protection.

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Table of contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Author Biographies
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. ‘Fit the Tree to the Climate’: The Cape Model of Forestry
  7. 2. Forestry in Reconstruction South Africa: Imperial Schemes, Colonial Realities, c. 1901–1905
  8. 3. Educating a Nascent ‘South African’ Forestry Corps, 1880–1932
  9. 4. Afforestation: Politics, Labour, and Science, c. 1910–1935
  10. 5. Competing Agendas? Afforestation, Catchment Management and Indigenous Forests, c. 1910–1935
  11. 6. 1935: The Fourth British Empire Forestry Conference in South Africa and the Origins of a Consensus Science Program
  12. 7. Jonkershoek as Fulcrum: The Forest Hydrological Research Program
  13. 8. Forest Hydrology in the Policy Domain
  14. 9. 1965 to 1995: Fluctuating Fortunes and Final Dividends
  15. 10. Devolution, Drift and New Directions, 1990–2014
  16. Selected Bibliography