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dc.contributor.authorVan Schuylenbergh, P.
dc.contributor.editorVereniging voor Ecologische Geschiedenis (Universiteit Gent)
dc.date2010
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-15T10:03:47Z
dc.date.available2016-03-15T10:03:47Z
dc.identifier.issn978-90-382-1530-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/790
dc.descriptionCould we assert that Congo was a 'Belgian Java'? Historical arguments confirm it since, right from the start, the Belgian colonial system borrowed practices from the Dutch colonial model, so as to acquire natural resources at little cost and use them as a tool for promoting metropolitan economy. Environmental knowledge regarding Congo, benefiting from the progress of scientists commissionned by the State or not, boosted its exploitation. This contributed to land structuring but revealed the danger of its excesses as well. Experimental and scientific transfers between colonial Belgium and The Netherlands, their questioning about biodiversity protection, within the international context, stimulated ecological consciousness.
dc.languagenld
dc.publisherAcademia Press
dc.title"Congo Nature Factory": wetenschappelijke netwerken en voorbeelden van Belgische-Nederlandse uitwisselingen (1885-1940)
dc.typeArticle
dc.subject.frascatiSociology
dc.audienceScientific
dc.subject.freeHistory & politics
dc.source.titleJaarboek voor Ecologische Geschiedenis
dc.source.volume2009; Natuur en milieu in Belgische en Nederlandse koloniën
dc.source.page79-104
Orfeo.peerreviewedYes
dc.identifier.rmca486


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