Brett Bennett
I hold a dual appointment as an Associate Professor Modern History at the Western Sydney University, Australia, and at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
My interdisciplinary research uses history to understand the evolution of conservation regimes and ideas across time and space. To this end, I focus on key issues relating to forests, invasive species, water conservation, and climate change.
I include a co-authored book and some of my more recent and most important papers on this website. Please refer to my official university websites for a more complete listing.
My interdisciplinary research uses history to understand the evolution of conservation regimes and ideas across time and space. To this end, I focus on key issues relating to forests, invasive species, water conservation, and climate change.
I include a co-authored book and some of my more recent and most important papers on this website. Please refer to my official university websites for a more complete listing.
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Bennett shows that plantations and protected areas evolved from, and then undermined, an earlier integrated forest management system that sought both to produce timber and to conserve the environment. He describes the development of the science and profession of forestry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; discusses the twentieth-century creation of timber plantations in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia; and examines the controversies over deforestation that led to the establishment of protected areas. Bennett argues that the problems associated with the bifurcation of forest management—including the loss of forestry knowledge necessary to manage large ecosystems for diverse purposes—suggest that a more integrated model would be preferable.
Bennett shows that plantations and protected areas evolved from, and then undermined, an earlier integrated forest management system that sought both to produce timber and to conserve the environment. He describes the development of the science and profession of forestry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; discusses the twentieth-century creation of timber plantations in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia; and examines the controversies over deforestation that led to the establishment of protected areas. Bennett argues that the problems associated with the bifurcation of forest management—including the loss of forestry knowledge necessary to manage large ecosystems for diverse purposes—suggest that a more integrated model would be preferable.