Knock on wood : nature as commodity in Douglas-fir country / / W. Scott Prudham

• Autore: Prudham W. Scott
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.750795
• Soggetto topico: Lumber trade - Environmental aspects - Northwest, Pacific; Environmental policy - Northwest, Pacific; Forests and forestry - Economic aspects - Northwest, Pacific
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; 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 Town: The Rise and Fall of Sustained-Yield Regulation in Oregon's Illinois Valley; Epilogue: Owls, Ecosystems, and the New Forestry; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Prudham employs a political economic approach to explain the social and economic conflicts arising from the timber industry's presence in the region. As well, he provides a thorough accounting of the timber industry itself, tracing its motivations, practices, and labor relations.
• Titolo autorizzato: Knock on wood
• ISBN: 1-136-07234-9; 1-283-84246-7; 1-136-07226-8; 0-203-44616-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815413703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II