TY - GEN T1 - Cold war ecology : forests, farms, and people in the East German landscape, 1945-1989 T2 - Yale agrarian studies. A1 - Nelson, Arvid, 1951- LA - English PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn130091124 AB - East Germany, its economy, and its society were in decline long before the country's political collapse in the late 1980s. The clues were there in the natural landscape, Arvid Nelson argues, but policy analysts were blind to them. Had they noted the record of the leadership's values and goals manifest in the landscape, they wouldn't have hailed East Germany as a Marxist-Leninist success story. Nelson sets East German history within the context of the landscape history of two centuries to underscore how forest and ecosystem change offered a reliable barometer to the health and stability of the political system that governed them. Cold War Ecology records how East German leaders' indifference to human rights and their disregard for the landscape affected the rural economy, forests, and population. This lesson from history suggests new ways of thinking about the health of ecosystems and landscapes, Nelson shows, and he proposes assessing the stability of modern political systems based on the environment's system qualities rather than on political leaders' goals and beliefs. OP - 315 CN - SD195 .N35 2005eb SN - 9780300130300 SN - 0300130309 SN - 0300106602 SN - 9780300106602 SN - 1281722510 SN - 9781281722515 KW - Forests and forestry : Political aspects : Germany (East) : History. KW - Forest policy : Germany (East) : History. KW - Agriculture and politics : Germany (East) : History. KW - Human ecology : Germany (East) : History. KW - Politique forestieĢ€re : Allemagne (Est) : Histoire. KW - Agriculture et politique : Allemagne (Est) : Histoire. KW - NATURE : Natural Resources. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Environmental Economics. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Green Business. KW - HISTORY : General. KW - Agriculture and politics KW - Forest policy KW - Forests and forestry : Political aspects KW - Human ecology KW - Germany (East) KW - History ER -