The Role of Alien Trees in South African Forestry and Conservation: Early 20th-Century Research and Debate on Climate Change, Soil Erosion and Hydrology

Autor:	Harald Witt
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science Erosion control media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Climate change Introduced species Forestry Alien Indigenous Community forestry Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Desertification Environmental history media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Southern African Studies. 40:1193-1214
ISSN:	1465-3893 0305-7070
DOI:	10.1080/03057070.2014.964906
Popis:	In the late 19th and early 20th century, many of the positions adopted in South Africa to argue for the conservation of indigenous forests were taken up by the state and various other commercial and industrial tree-growing bodies to legitimise the planting of alien trees in large artificial ‘forests’. These included the perceptions of the positive impact that forests may have on climate and ultimately rainfall, the contribution of forestry in combating soil erosion and halting the process of desertification, and the influence of forests on groundwater supplies and streamflow quality. The deeply rooted and lengthy association of scientific forestry with a conservationist ethos has, despite growing contradictions, continued to dominate the contemporary forestry and industrial tree-growing discourse. Today's forestry officials and private tree-growers still maintain that conservation and industrial tree-growing go hand in hand, reiterating the legend that the Department of Forestry is the oldest conservation...
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