Managing Northern Europe's Forests

<p> Northern Europe was by many accounts the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice and for hundreds of years the region's woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations economic growth and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters the contributors to this volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia the Low Countries Germany Poland and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present. Each explores the complex interrelationships of state-building resource management knowledge transfer and trade over a period characterized by ongoing modernization and evolving environmental awareness.</p>