Educating a Nascent ‘South African’ Forestry Corps, 1880–1932

Poorly funded though the colonial forest services may have been, their first constraint during and after reconstruction of the Southern African economies following the South African War was the shortage of properly educated forest scientists and managers. The responses to this shortage led to severa...

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Hauptverfasser:	Kruger, Fred, Bennett, Brett
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied ecology Biocenosis Biological sciences Biology Botany Colonies Community forestry Conservation biology Ecology Ecosystem management Environmental conservation Environmental management Environmental policy Forest conservation Forest ecology Forest management Forestry Forestry development Forestry policy Forestry research Forests Government Human geography Natural resource management Plant communities Plant ecology Plantation forestry Political geography Political science Population ecology Public administration Public policy Social sciences Synecology Urban forestry
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Zusammenfassung:	Poorly funded though the colonial forest services may have been, their first constraint during and after reconstruction of the Southern African economies following the South African War was the shortage of properly educated forest scientists and managers. The responses to this shortage led to several lines of development. First, the short-lived South African College School of Forestry provided education in forest science. It was based at Tokai in southern Cape Town, a facility that after a hiatus of 20 years was succeeded by a new Department of Forestry at the University of Stellenbosch in 1932. Second, the School for Foresters—