Dear people,
I would like to thank to all who responded so far to my last post, and
explain a bit further what I am really after in hope to avoid waste of
time:
In an ideal, ecologically and socially sustainable society the
management of renewable energy sources is very important.
Pollarding and coppicing would seem to be one way of making sure that
the supply of wood (one of the chiefest sources of sustainable energy)
is not depleted beyond being sustainable.
I would like to find out how effective pollarding and coppicing
(along, possibly, with other methods), as ways of making sure that the
supply of wood remains sustainable, is/was practiced in cultures that
could be considered to be/have been sustainable.
Using metasearch programs ("+pollarding +coppicing +archaeology")
yields an overwhelming amount of data that would take me a long time
to process. By asking experts I am hoping to get some intelligence on
the subject more expediently--I hope you don't mind.
What is known about sustainable wood energy management (including
pollarding and coppicing) from other cultures (be those past, or
present)?
Thank you sincerely -
Mr. Jan Hearthstone (BA - Anthropology, U of Hawai'i, May 2002).
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