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Trees, fields, and people. The forests of China from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Trees, fields, and people. The forests of China from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries./
Author:	Menzies, Nicholas Kay.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1988,
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-04, Section: B, page: 1177.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International50-04B.
Subject:	Forestry. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8916794

Trees, fields, and people. The forests of China from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Menzies, Nicholas Kay.

Trees, fields, and people. The forests of China from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1988 - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-04, Section: B, page: 1177.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1988.

The historical pattern of land use in China has been described as a process of clearance of forest for conversion to agriculture. There is evidence that in spite of the general phenomenon of deforestation, forests were protected, maintained, or intensively managed in many places, often for periods of several centuries. This dissertation identifies and describes six of these forms of management, varying from the Imperial Hunting Enclosure in northeastern China to intensively cultivated small scale systems where timber was grown as a commercial product intercropped with annual and perennial cash crops.Subjects--Topical Terms:

895157
Forestry.

Trees, fields, and people. The forests of China from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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520 $a The historical pattern of land use in China has been described as a process of clearance of forest for conversion to agriculture. There is evidence that in spite of the general phenomenon of deforestation, forests were protected, maintained, or intensively managed in many places, often for periods of several centuries. This dissertation identifies and describes six of these forms of management, varying from the Imperial Hunting Enclosure in northeastern China to intensively cultivated small scale systems where timber was grown as a commercial product intercropped with annual and perennial cash crops.
520 $a The dissertation seeks to explain why these forms persisted, and so to identify sources of forest sustainability. It proposes that forests were a medium through which users satisfied symbolic, social, or material needs beyond the direct benefits derived from the forest itself. Users defined their needs in response to different ecological settings and to a shifting external context of demographic change, technological innovations, and political and socioeconomic factors. Symbolic needs such as the demonstration of control over land were best served by protecting the forest. Social needs were best served by the distribution of forest rights and responsibilities that maintained organisational coherence. Material needs were best served by an investment of effort into production. User groups with similar organisational characteristics would adopt different strategies in response to different sets of external forces. Different user groups would be expected to adopt different strategies in response to a similar set of external forces.
520 $a The effectiveness of management depended on the group's capacity to control access to and utilisation of the forest. The stability and resilience of effective systems of management were related to a system's ability to adjust to changes over time. Users could adjust the definition of their needs, the mix of goods and services derived from the forest, or the forms of control, distribution, and enforcement they applied. Users maintained a balance between the changing contextual environment and their own internal structure and the institutions with which they controlled the forest.
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