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New Beginnings in Forestry,ocused, and sustained. It was driven at least initially by a conscious desire to learn from the lessons of history, namely that the nation must never again run short of timber during a military crisis. Of the European nations, only Portugal had proportionately less woodland cover at the turn of the

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Environmental Hazards,east) are relatively benign. More often than not, an environmental hazard has arisen only through some human activity. A devastating example was the Aberfan coal-tip disaster of October 1966. Whilst the processes that caused the down-slope movement of the coal wastes onto the Welsh valley village we

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The Century of the Environment,e of temporal and geographical scales. Scientific discovery and technological development promised to free humanity from much of the disease, hunger and poverty that had previously made human life so miserable. But such advances were not cost-free. That rapid change of fortune for an increasing prop

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Die Ordnung des Wirtschaftslebenshere once the country had been simply ‘home’, Warde Fowler (1893) wrote of how ‘we pine for the pure air, for the sight of growing grass, for the footpath across the meadow’, without first having to pass through ‘grimy suburbs’. There was now ‘a(chǎn) touch of self-consciousness in our passion for it, which finds expression in a multitude of books’.

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Die Regulierung des Wirtschaftslebens,eriod, 1851–1911. London was both a ‘world city’ in the sense of being so large (Briggs 1968), and ‘a(chǎn)n imperial city’ — the capital of a formally constituted and governed empire that extended to every continent and ocean, except Antarctica. The imperial metropolis was at the heart of the largest empire the planet had ever known (Schneer 1999).