A Critical Geography of Britain's State Forests

• Explores Britain's changing vision of, and policy towards, forests and trees.
• An unusual in-depth look at the functioning of the Forestry Commissison

Readership: Scholars and students of geography and the environment; nature conservationists; public policy makers; sociologists and philosophers interested in the process of reality construction; and in organizational theory and behaviour.

Judith Tsouvalis, Lecturer in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

"This volume is a useful addition to the literature, and it will undoubtedly be used by academic researchers in the field of forest history." - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

1: Introduction: Reflections on Nature, Society, and Geography
2: The Dawn of Scientific Forestry
3: The Birth of a New Tradition
4: Co-emergent Spaces: From Wastelands to Plantation Forests
5: Moments of Crisis I: Upheavals in the Scottish Uplands
6: Moments of Crisis II: The Ancient Woodland Debate
7: Nature Conservation, Landscape Design, and Recreation: Voices From Within the Forestry Commission
8: The Forestry Commission's Reflective Turn
9: The Dawn of Postmodern Forestry
Conclusion
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