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the German practice had a lot in
common with the French tradition.
During the inter-war period and
the 1950s ideas of environmentally
sensitive forestry were common.
The best known representative
of this forestry ethic was Professor
Mark Anderson. He saw the
forests as ‘living communities’.
Anderson’s ideas were not unique
but he is hardly recognised as a
man of his times due to the rational
system of forestry economics that
was introduced in the 1960s. This
development had a profound environmental
impact on the landscape
and worked like a distorting lens
obscuring the roots of environmentally
sensitive forestry. However, the
tradition of environmentally sensitive
forestry survived throughout
the 1960s and 1970s due to the
deep-rooted environmental tradition
shared by many foresters. The
recent reawakening of environmentally
sensitive forestry can be firmly
attributed to its 19th century roots.
We can now recognise the present
interest in the native and natural
forests of Britain as a long-standing
tradition.
Jan-Willem Oosthoek
Techniek- en
milieugeschiedenis
op congressen
Nieuw initiatieven
SHOT interest group: nature &
technology
We are interested in organizing a
special interest group within the
Society for the History of Technology
for scholars working on topics
related to “nature and technology,”
broadly construed. We hope to
have the first meeting at the 2000
SHOT conference in Munich next
August and perhaps start an online
community as well.
• Jim Williams
Department of History
De Anza College
jcw1@gateway.net
• Sara Pritchard
Department of History
Stanford University
spritch@leland.stanford.edu
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redactie: myriam d a r u
webversie: jan van den n o o r t
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Technology and the
Environment - 27th
Symposium of ICOHTEC
Location: Czech Republic
Major theme session of the 27th
Symposium of the International
Committee for the History of Technology
(ICOHTEC) to be held in
Prague, The Czech Republic, August
22-26, 2000.
The conference theme is ‘Technological
Landscapes: Energy, Transport,
and Environment.’ The session
will explore the interplay of technology
and the environment in
terms of “Energy, Transport, and
Environment.” The session may
extend over two days, depending
on how many contributions are accepted.
The 27th Symposium of ICOHT-
EC is being co-hosted by the Czech
Technical University and the National
Technical Museum of Prague.
For more information on ICO-
HTEC and the 27th Symposium,
please visit the ICOHTEC Web
site.
Contact information:
James Williams, History
Department, De Anza College
21250 Stevens Creek Boulevard
Cupertino CA 95014
Phone: 650-960-8193
FAX: 650-960-8195
Email: jcw1@gateway.net
Website http://www.h-net.msu.
edu/show.cgiID=124853
Een nieuwe database voor
milieuhistorisch onderzoek
‘Documenting Environmental
Change’
The project ‘Documenting Environmental
Change’ arose out of
a colloquium held at Clare Hall
College, Cambridge, under the
auspices of the Centre for History
and Economics, King’s College, on
15 September 1999. The meeting
brought together a broad spectrum
of people working in the fields of
geography, history, archaeology,
historical climatology, literature,
anthropology and political science,
to exchange information about
their work and examine the possibilities
of future interdisciplinary
co-operation in the study of historical
environmental change. ‘Environmental
History’, or the study
of environmental change in past
time, has since its inception incorporated
methods from a variety of
disciplines; History and geography
are perhaps the most prominent
of these, but they must be ranged
alongside ecology (especially landscape
ecology), botany, climatology,
anthroplogy, archaeology, and the
history and philosophy of science.
Those disciplines concentrating on
‘natural resource data’ such as pollen
records, sedimentation history
or dendrochronologies have been
able to provide remarkably accurate
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