Empire forestry and its failure in the Philippines : 1901–1941

• Main Author: Luyt, Brendan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Forestry Modeling; DRNTU::Humanities::General; Forestry Practice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89567; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47099
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

From the mid-nineteenth century onwards there developed in the British colonies a distinctive set of forestry practices that came to be described as Empire forestry. These practices grew out of the same milieu as imperialism, and had their earliest expression in British India. Gregory Barton argues...