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Where we are with Wood-Pasture: Two Recent Books and the Current State of Research

Where we are with Wood-Pasture: Two Recent Books and the Current State of Research LANDSCAPES, 2016 VOL. 17, NO. 1, 82–88 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2016.1169040 REVIEW ARTICLE Where we are with Wood-Pasture: Two Recent Books and the Current State of Research Tom Williamson University of East Anglia European Wood-Pastures in Transition: a social-ecological approach, edited by T. Hartel and T. Plieninger, 2014, Routledge Earthscan, 303 pp, 58 illustrations, £90 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-86989-8 Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals: a European perspective on woodlands and grazed treescapes, edited by I. D. Rotherham, 2013, Routledge, 412 pp, 106 illustrations, £75 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-62611-8 These two edited volumes both deal, from a variety of perspectives, with the history and ecology of ‘wood-pastures’– grazed woodlands – a type of habitat which once covered vast tracts of Europe but which has been declining at various rates for many centuries, and with increasing rapidity over recent decades. Wood-pastures have recently become a key area of research as a consequence, in particular, of the work of Frans Vera (2000). As most readers will probably be aware, the ‘Vera hypothesis’ proposes that the pre-Neo- lithic landscape of northern Europe was not dominated by closed-canopy ‘forest’, as was once assumed, but by more open environments – dynamic savannas characterised by grassland and more thinly scattered http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Where we are with Wood-Pasture: Two Recent Books and the Current State of Research

Williamson, Tom
Landscapes , Volume 17 (1): 7 – Jan 2, 2016
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LANDSCAPES, 2016 VOL. 17, NO. 1, 82–88 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2016.1169040 REVIEW ARTICLE Where we are with Wood-Pasture: Two Recent Books and the Current State of Research Tom Williamson University of East Anglia European Wood-Pastures in Transition: a social-ecological approach, edited by T. Hartel and T. Plieninger, 2014, Routledge Earthscan, 303 pp, 58 illustrations, £90 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-86989-8 Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals: a European perspective on woodlands and grazed treescapes, edited by I. D. Rotherham, 2013, Routledge, 412 pp, 106 illustrations, £75 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-62611-8 These two edited volumes both deal, from a variety of perspectives, with the history and ecology of ‘wood-pastures’– grazed woodlands – a type of habitat which once covered vast tracts of Europe but which has been declining at various rates for many centuries, and with increasing rapidity over recent decades. Wood-pastures have recently become a key area of research as a consequence, in particular, of the work of Frans Vera (2000). As most readers will probably be aware, the ‘Vera hypothesis’ proposes that the pre-Neo- lithic landscape of northern Europe was not dominated by closed-canopy ‘forest’, as was once assumed, but by more open environments – dynamic savannas characterised by grassland and more thinly scattered

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