Roland Ennos
Auteur de The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
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Roland Ennos is a visiting professor of biological sciences at the University of Hull. He is the author of textbooks on plants, biomechanics, and statistics, and his popular book Trees, which was published by London's Natural History Museum. He is an enthusiast for natural history, archaeology, and afficher plus early music, and lives with his partner and several hundred ferns near Hull, in East Yorkshire, England. afficher moins
Œuvres de Roland Ennos
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization (2020) 192 exemplaires
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- 264
- Popularité
- #87,286
- Évaluation
- 3.5
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- 8
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- 31
So, what we have here is basically one-quarter natural history, one-quarter anthropology, one-quarter history of technology, and one-quarter environmental science. Ennos begins by examining how people have exploited wood over time, slowly merging into a polite manifesto for more intelligence approaches to reforestation, and the cultivation of those forests. Ennos sees great opportunities for the recreation of vibrant forests on land that was never especially viable for food production and close in to cities. It's interesting to me that while he's concerned about clear-cutting lumbering and soil degradation, Ennos puts a lot more blame on uncontrolled animal grazing. He is also highly critical about trying to manage forests like one-crop plantations, populated with tree species that were thought to be commercially valuable, but which turned out to be environmental dead ends. About my best recommendation for this book is that Ennos did get me thinking about questions I didn't know I had.… (plus d'informations)