Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas-Fir Country

ISBN-13: 9780415944014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str.

Scott Prudham; W. Scott Prudham; Prudham Scott Prudham

Opis

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has, in recent years, seen more environmental conflictt than perhaps anywhere else in the US - the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. He looks at the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry, tracing its motivations, practices and labour relations.

Recenzje

"This book arrived on my desk two days after the U.S. Senate voted down, yet again, legislation that would have begun the process of finally dealing with climate change, albeit in a tiny, timid way. I wish that every member of that chamber could be forced to read this book--to realize that global warming is not some distant threat, but a very present reality. It is a powerful document of witness." -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

Spis treści

Acknowledgments 1 The Political Economy of an Ecological Crisis 2 Working the Land: Production Relations in Logging and Reforestation 3 Industrial Ecologies and Regional Geographies 4 Geographies of Scale and Scope in Lumbering 5 Toward Organic Machines: The Historical Political Economy of Douglas-Fir Tree Improvement 6 Timber and Down: The Rise and Fall of Sustained Yield Regulation in Oregon's Illinois Valley 7 Epilogue: Owls, Ecosystems, and the New Forestry

O autorze

Scott Prudham is an assistant professor in the geography department at the University of Toronto.