Final Course Syllabus and Schedule Details
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Readings & Schedule
Links to journal websites for article retrieval are included below.
All links should work for access from within the Umeå University system. If you have trouble with gated access, please email Nancy Langston at [email protected]
Optional Reference Book
Ulf Jansson, Agriculture and Forestry in Sweden since 1900, 2011, National Atlas of Sweden, 225 pp. This is worth reading through before the seminar begins; we will use its maps and charts during the seminar.
Required Articles: listed by day that we discuss them. Readings should be completed before the seminar begins.
*Starred readings are the most important for discussion.
Please note that our room locations have been changed!
Daily Schedule
All links should work for access from within the Umeå University system. If you have trouble with gated access, please email Nancy Langston at [email protected]
Optional Reference Book
Ulf Jansson, Agriculture and Forestry in Sweden since 1900, 2011, National Atlas of Sweden, 225 pp. This is worth reading through before the seminar begins; we will use its maps and charts during the seminar.
Required Articles: listed by day that we discuss them. Readings should be completed before the seminar begins.
*Starred readings are the most important for discussion.
Please note that our room locations have been changed!
Daily Schedule
- 08:30 – 09.30 Lecture 1
- 09.30-10.00 Fika
- 10.00-11.30 Lecture 2 and discussion
- 11.30-12.30 Lunch
- 12.30-14.00 Lecture 3 and discussion
- 14.00-14.30 Fika
- 14.30-16.30 Project work and readings on your own, optional office hours with Nancy Langston
Monday 15 APRIL
MORNING: Ecological and Archeological History: Innovative Approaches, Methods, and Questions
8.30-9.30 Introductions, course goals
9.30-10 Fika
10.00-11.30 Lecture; Visit to environmental archeology laboratory with Phil Buckland.
Phil will be leading our morning visit to the environmental archeology lab, and this reading will help you prepare for the visit. As you read the formal articles below, think about methodologies. How do we know what we think we know about the past? How do different disciplines approach different kinds of evidence? Phil will be delighted to show us samples of the various sources discussed in the papers below, so please think about what kinds of evidence you would like to see during our lab visit. Lab Reading: Buckland, Phil. "Environmental Archeology." Overview of methodologies in environmental archeology.
Afternoon: Sami and Indigenous North American histories
13.00-14.30 lecture and discussion, Nancy Langston: B203 Humanistuset
8.30-9.30 Introductions, course goals
9.30-10 Fika
10.00-11.30 Lecture; Visit to environmental archeology laboratory with Phil Buckland.
Phil will be leading our morning visit to the environmental archeology lab, and this reading will help you prepare for the visit. As you read the formal articles below, think about methodologies. How do we know what we think we know about the past? How do different disciplines approach different kinds of evidence? Phil will be delighted to show us samples of the various sources discussed in the papers below, so please think about what kinds of evidence you would like to see during our lab visit. Lab Reading: Buckland, Phil. "Environmental Archeology." Overview of methodologies in environmental archeology.
- *Lindbladh, M., Bradshaw, R., & Holmqvist, B. H. (2000). Pattern and process in south swedish forests during the last 3000 years, sensed at stand and regional scales. Journal of Ecology, 88(1), 113-128. Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00429.x/abstract
- *Axelsson, A. L., Östlund, L., & Hellberg, E. (2002). Changes in mixed deciduous forests of boreal sweden 1866–1999 based on interpretation of historical records. Landscape Ecology, 17(5), 403-418. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1021226600159?LI=true#page-1
- *Moller, P., Östlund O., Barnekow, L., Sandgren, P., Palmbo, F., & Willerslev, E. (2012). Living at the margin of the retreating fennoscandian ice sheet: The early mesolithic sites at aareavaara, northernmost sweden. The Holocene. http://hol.sagepub.com/content/23/1/104
- *Pregitzer, K. S., Reed, D. D., Bornhorst, T. J., Foster, D. R., Mroz, G. D., McLachlan, J. S., . . . Brown, S. E. (2000). A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the pleistocene/holocene boundary. Journal of Ecology, 88(1), 45-53. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00432.x/full
- *Schulte, L. A., & Mladenoff, D. J. (2005). Severe wind and fire regimes in northern forests: Historical variability at the regional scale. Ecology, 86(2), 431-445. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/03-4065
- White, M. A., & Mladenoff, D. J. (1994). Old-growth forest landscape transitions from pre-european settlement to present. Landscape Ecology, 9(3), 191-205. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00134747?LI=true#page-1
- Ulf Segerström, Ulf. 1997. Long-term dynamics of vegetation and disturbance of a southern boreal spruce swamp forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 8: 295-306. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3237359/full
- Bigler, C., Barnekow, L., Heinrichs, M. L., & Hall, R. I. (2006). Holocene environmental history of lake vuolep njakajaure (abisko national park, northern sweden) reconstructed using biological proxy indicators. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 15(4), 309-320. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00334-006-0054-x?LI=true#page-1
- Boucher, Y., Arseneault, D., & Sirois, L. (2009). Logging history (1820–2000) of a heavily exploited southern boreal forest landscape: Insights from sunken logs and forestry maps. Forest Ecology and Management, 258(7), 1359-1368. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112709004563
Afternoon: Sami and Indigenous North American histories
13.00-14.30 lecture and discussion, Nancy Langston: B203 Humanistuset
- *Johnson, E. A., & Miyanishi, K. (2012). The boreal forest as a cultural landscape. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1249(1), 151-165. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06312.x/full
- *JOSEFSSON, T., BERGMAN, I., & ÖSTLUND, L. (2010). Quantifying sami settlement and movement patterns in northern sweden 1700–1900. Arctic, 63(2), 141-154. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/27821959
- Östlund, L., Ericsson, T. S., Zackrisson, O., & Andersson, R. (2003). Traces of past sami forest use: An ecological study of culturally modified trees and earlier land use within a boreal forest reserve. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 18(1), 78-89. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02827581.2003.10383140
- Roturier, S., & Roué, M. (2009). Of forest, snow and lichen: Sámi reindeer herders’ knowledge of winter pastures in northern sweden. Forest Ecology and Management, 258(9), 1960-1967. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112709005167
- *Piper, L., & Sandlos, J. (2007). A broken frontier: ecological imperialism in the canadian north. Environmental History, 12(4), 759-795. http://envhis.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/4/759.short
- *Sandlos, J., & Keeling, A. (2012). Claiming the new north: Development and colonialism at the pine point mine, northwest territories, canada. Environment and History, 18(1), 5-34. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dnr4a0d0cp5hvcz/Claiming%20the%20New%20North%20Development%20and%20Colonialis.pdf
- *Langston, N. (2013). Mining the boreal north. American Scientist, 101, 98-102. http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/mining-the-boreal-north/1
Tuesday 16 April
Morning: North American forestry
8.30-9.30 lecture Nancy Langston Room 1022* Norra btv-huset / The North Behavioural Sciences Building
9.30-10.00 fika
10.00-11.30 lecture and discussion Nancy Langston Room 1022* Norra btv-huset / The North Behavioural Sciences Building
Afternoon: Restoration Dilemmas
Guest lecture and discussion: 12.30-14.00 Dr. Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå Universitet, Room BT103, Beteendevetarhuset / The Behavioural Sciences Building
8.30-9.30 lecture Nancy Langston Room 1022* Norra btv-huset / The North Behavioural Sciences Building
9.30-10.00 fika
10.00-11.30 lecture and discussion Nancy Langston Room 1022* Norra btv-huset / The North Behavioural Sciences Building
- *Williams, M. (1992). Americans and their forests: A historical geography. Cambridge University Press. Link to chapter on Great Lakes.
- *Gough, R. J. (1997). Farming the cutover: A social history of northern wisconsin, 1900-1940. University Press of Kansas. Link to Selections.
- *Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Langston, N., & David J. Mladenoff. (2010). Logging the great lakes indian reservations: The case of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 34(1), 41-66. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2rlo76f1a3id3ml/Logging%20the%20Great%20Lakes%20Indian%20Reservations%20The%20C.pdf
- Steen-Adams, M., Langston, N., & Mladenoff, D. (2007). White pine in the northern forests: An ecological and management history of white pine on the Bad River reservation of Wisconsin. Environmental History, 12(3), 614–648. http://envhis.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/3/614.short
- *Cadigan, Sean. 2006. Recognizing the commons in coastal forests: The three-mile limit in newfoundland, 1875-1939. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 21. http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/viewArticle/10151/10451
- *Pyne, S. (2007). Burning border. Environmental History, 12(4), 959-965. http://envhis.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/4/959.short
Afternoon: Restoration Dilemmas
Guest lecture and discussion: 12.30-14.00 Dr. Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå Universitet, Room BT103, Beteendevetarhuset / The Behavioural Sciences Building
- *Jørgensen D. Pigs and Pollards: Medieval Insights for UK Wood Pasture Restoration. Sustainability. 2013; 5(2):387-399. http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/2/387
- Langston, N. (1999). Environmental history and restoration in the western forests. Journal of the West, 38, 45-56.
Wednesday 17 April
Wednesday 17 April B206 Humanistuset
Morning: Early Swedish forestry
8.30-9.30 lecture Nancy Langston
9.30-10.00 fika
10.00-11.30 lecture and discussion Nancy Langston
Afternoon: Mining, Toxics, and Forests B206 Humanistuset
Guest lecture and discussion: 12.30-14.00: Ulf Segerström, SLU
Morning: Early Swedish forestry
8.30-9.30 lecture Nancy Langston
9.30-10.00 fika
10.00-11.30 lecture and discussion Nancy Langston
- *Eliasson, P., & Nilsson, S. G. (2002). 'You should hate young oaks and young noblemen': The environmental history of oaks in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century sweden. Environmental History, 7(4), 659-677. http://envhis.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/4/659.full.pdf
- *Ericsson, S., Östlund, L., & Axelsson, A. L. (2000). A forest of grazing and logging: Deforestation and reforestation history of a boreal landscape in central sweden. New Forests, 19(3), 227-240. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1006673312465?LI=true#page-1
- Ostlund, L., Zackrisson, O., & Strotz, H. (1998). Potash production in northern sweden: History and ecological effects of a pre-industrial forest exploitation. Environment and History, 4(3), 345-358.
Afternoon: Mining, Toxics, and Forests B206 Humanistuset
Guest lecture and discussion: 12.30-14.00: Ulf Segerström, SLU
- *Richard Bindler, Ulf Segerström, Ing-Marie Pettersson-Jensen, Anna Berg, Sophia Hansson, Harald Holmström, Karin Olsson, Ingemar Renberg. 2011. Early medieval origins of iron mining and settlement in central Sweden: multiproxy analysis of sediment and peat records from the Norberg mining district. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 2: 291–300. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440310003146
- *Porvari, P., Verta, M., Munthe, J., & Haapanen, M. (2003). Forestry practices increase mercury and methyl mercury output from boreal forest catchments. Environmental Science & Technology, 37(11), 2389-2393. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es0340174
- *Parrott, J. L., McMaster, M. E., & Hewitt, L. M. (2006). A decade of research on the environmental impacts of pulp and paper mill effluents in canada. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev, 9(4), 319-339. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15287390500195869?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed
- Bishop, K., Allan, C., Bringmark, L., Garcia, E., Hellsten, S., Högbom, L., . . . Akerblom, S. (2009). The effects of forestry on hg bioaccumulation in nemoral/boreal waters and recommendations for good silvicultural practice. Ambio, 38(7), 373-80. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1579/0044-7447-38.7.373
- Vecsey, C. (1987). Grassy narrows reserve: Mercury pollution, social disruption, and natural resources: A question of autonomy. American Indian Quarterly, 287-314. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1184289
Thursday 18 April
Morning: Swedish Forests since the 19th C B206 Humanistuset
Guest lecture 8.30-9.30: Erik Törnlund (PhD Economic History), Umeå Universitet
Guest lecture and discussion: 10.00-11.30 Prof. Lars Östlund, SLU
Afternoon: Timber floating, river modifications, and forestry B206 Humanistuset
Lecture and discussion 12.30-14.00 Nancy Langston
Guest lecture 8.30-9.30: Erik Törnlund (PhD Economic History), Umeå Universitet
Guest lecture and discussion: 10.00-11.30 Prof. Lars Östlund, SLU
- *LG Liedgren, L Östlund - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2011, Heat, smoke and fuel consumption in a high mountain stállo hut, northern Sweden–Experimental burning of fresh birch wood during winter, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031000419X
- *Joseffson, T., & Östlund, L. (2011). Increased production and depletion: The impact of forestry on northern sweden’s forest landscape. In Agriculture and forestry in Sweden since 1900 – geographical and historical studies.
- *Östlund, L. (1995). Logging the virgin forest: Northern sweden in the early-nineteenth century. Forest & Conservation History, 39(4), 160-171. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3983957
- Östlund, L., Zackrisson, O., & Axelsson, A. L. (1997). The history and transformation of a scandinavian boreal forest landscape since the 19th century. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 27(8), 1198-1206.
Afternoon: Timber floating, river modifications, and forestry B206 Humanistuset
Lecture and discussion 12.30-14.00 Nancy Langston
- *Tornlund, E., & Östlund L. (2002). Floating timber in northern sweden: The construction of floatways and transformation of rivers. Environment and History, 8(1), 85-106.
- *Tornlund, E., & Östlund, L. (2006). Mobility without wheels: The economy and ecology of timber floating in sweden, 1850-1980. The Journal of Transport History, 27(1), 48-70.
- Liermann, C. R., Nilsson, C., Robertson, J., & Ng, R. Y. (2012). Implications of dam obstruction for global freshwater fish diversity. BioScience, 62(6), 539-548.
- Hänninen, N. (n.d.). Hydropower build-up and the timber floating in northern finland after the second world war. Retrieved from Google Scholar.
Friday 19 April: Excursion Day
Past and Future Forests
08.00 to 17.00
Guest lecture: Erland Mårald, Umeå Universitet
08.00 to 17.00
Guest lecture: Erland Mårald, Umeå Universitet
- *Langston, N. (2009). Paradise lost: Climate change, boreal forests, and environmental history. Environmental History, 14, 641-650. http://envhis.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/4/641.short
- *Sténs, A., & Sandström, C. (2012). Divergent interests and ideas around property rights: The case of berry harvesting in sweden. Forest Policy and Economics. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934112001220
- *Gillian McEachern and Tim Gray. (n.d.). Lessons for Canadians from Swedish forests.
- *Pelley, J. (2004). Traditional foes collaborate to save boreal. Environmental Science & Technology, 38(5), 82A-83A. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es0403920
- *Kuuluvainen, T., Tahvonen, O., & Aakala, T. (2012). Even-Aged and uneven-aged forest management in boreal fennoscandia: A review. Ambio. doi:10.1007/s13280-012-0289-y
- Prowse, T. D., Furgal, C., Wrona, F. J., & Reist, J. D. (2009). Implications of climate change for northern canada: Freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. Ambio, 38(5), 282-9.
- Steffen, W., Persson, Deutsch, L., Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Richardson, K., . . . Gordon, L. (2011). The anthropocene: From global change to planetary stewardship. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 1-23. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13280-011-0185-x?LI=true#page-1
- Vors, L. S., Schaefer, J. A., Pond, B. A., Rodgers, A. R., & Patterson, B. R. (2007). Woodland caribou extirpation and anthropogenic landscape disturbance in Ontario. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 71(4), 1249-1256.
Note about readings
*Starred readings are the most important for discussion. The expectation for a 7.5 CTS credit course is 1000 to 1500 pages of reading, yet because these are technical articles in English, I understand if you need to skim some readings. Make sure you read the abstract, introduction, and conclusion of each article carefully, and focus your time on the starred readings.