Afforestation: Politics, Labour, and Science, c. 1910–1935

After political Union in 1910, the newly formed Union government decided to create a single Forestry Department located in Pretoria, the new administrative capital of South Africa. The department drew on the ‘system in force in the Cape Colony’, which was then ‘applied throughout’ the country.¹ Engl...

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Hauptverfasser:	Kruger, Fred, Bennett, Brett
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Afforestation Applied ecology Biocenosis Biological sciences Biology Botany Coniferous forests Conservation biology Ecology Economic disciplines Economics Ecosystem management Employment Environmental conservation Environmental management Environmental policy Forest conservation Forest management Forest reserves Forest resources Forestry Forestry development Forestry policy Forestry research Forestry workers Forests Government Labor economics Natural resource management Occupations Plant communities Plantation forestry Political science Population ecology Public administration Public policy State forests Synecology
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Zusammenfassung:	After political Union in 1910, the newly formed Union government decided to create a single Forestry Department located in Pretoria, the new administrative capital of South Africa. The department drew on the ‘system in force in the Cape Colony’, which was then ‘applied throughout’ the country.¹ English-speakers from the Cape filled the upper echelons of forestry, with less-educated as well as educated younger Afrikaners often taking up junior or technical positions.² The creation of a forestry department paralleled the establishment of a number of other new departments and institutes created after 1910, including the Department of Agriculture (1911), Geological Survey