Title: Struggling with the Environment: Land Use and Productivity (Rural Economy and Society in North-Western Europe, 500-2000)
Publisher: Brepols N.V.
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 2503530478
ISBN 13: 9782503530475
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Agriculture is always a struggle with the environment since agricultural production is in fact applied ecology. However, in the past the struggle with the environment was to a large extent determined by the social organisation which was regionally very diverse. The aim of this volume is to find out how, when and within which structural boundaries, land was made useful for agriculture. In the first part of each chapter, this is studied in general, focusing on the evolution of land use: how and why was land reclaimed and by whom? How intensively was this land used? Which actors played a part in this process? What were the environmental and social limits? In the second part the production techniques and production systems are scrutinized: crop choices, crop rotations, the importance of fallow and cattle, crop yields etc. All this is looked at in light of different farming strategies and social conditions. The comparative approach of this volume also enables a new and innovating perspective on the occurrence and impact of 'agricultural' and 'green' revolutions in the past.

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Erik Thoen is professor in rural history and environmental history at the Ghent University (B) and co-ordinator of the CORN network Guus J. Borger is emeritus professor in historical geography at the University of Amsterdam and the VU University Amsterdam (NL) Tim Soens is professor in rural history and environmental history at the University of Antwerp (B) Adriaan M.J. de Kraker is senior researcher in historical geography at the VU University Amsterdam (NL) Dries Tys is professor at the Brussels Free University (VUB) (B) Lies Vervaet is assistant specialised in rural history at the Ghent University (B) Henk J.T. Weerts is senior researcher paleogeography at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands

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