[PDF.41zq] A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice

A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice

[PDF.zu62] A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice

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 | #2438689 in Books |  The Johns Hopkins University Press |  2009-12-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.15 x6.00l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 376 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| exceptional history of Venetian's ability to preserve a valuable resource ...|By yulia|exceptional history of Venetian's ability to preserve a valuable resource - timber for their ships, fuel, and their city's canals. We can learn much from the Venetian's efforts to document, manage, and husband the resources.| ||"Karl Appuhn’s study of Venetian efforts to control and manage their forests is a fascinating case study in the problems and politics of resource management. By carefully tracing the evolution of Venice’s attempts to control, harvest, and replenis

Wood was essential to the survival of the Venetian Republic. To build its great naval and merchant ships, maintain its extensive levee system, construct buildings, fuel industries, and heat homes, Venice needed access to large quantities of oak and beech timber. The island city itself was devoid of any forests, so the state turned to its mainland holdings for this vital resource. A Forest on the Sea explores the history of this enterprise and Venice’s ef...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice   |  Karl Appuhn. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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