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Holznot (German for wood shortage) is a historic term for an existing or imminent supply crisis of wood. == Historical use == In particular, the concept was applied to Central Europe around the end of the 16th century till the start of the early 19th century in numerous sources. In almost all German-speaking regions, a wood shortage and resulting wood-saving measures became an important topic. 〔Joachim Radkau, Technik in Deutschland. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Frankfurt/New York 2008, p. 74.〕 〔 (review of Joachim Radkau Wood: A History Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. 399 pp. by Vaso Seirinidou University of Athens )〕 Forestry and history scholars did not dispute the wood shortage ''per se'' for a long time. Besides the tragedy of the commons legend, the alleged Holznot was critical to motivate the shift from forest use as part of subsistence agriculture to modern professional forestry and was an important base of the development of modern forestry science around 1800. Around the 1980s, environmental historian Joachim Radkau raising doubts about the alleged 18th-century wood shortage started a research controversy among German historians, called the "Holznotdebatte". Radkau debated e.g. with Rolf Peter Sieferle about the existence, extent, and spatial and social impact of perceived or real existing wood shortages and the associated ideological and economic background.〔Elisabeth Weinberger: ''Waldnutzung und Waldgewerbe in Altbayern im 18. und beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert.'' Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07610-7. (Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte: Beihefte Band 157)〕〔Frank Uekötter, Umweltgeschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, Bd. 81, (hg. v. Lothar Gall), München 2007, S. 8. 〕 Radkau doubted the Holznot had existed at all. Similar as with the tragedy of the commons he saw a strong ideological motive to get rid of the traditional farmers' forest access.〔 Radkau repeats Werner Sombart’s notion of the pre-industrial phase as a “Wooden Age”, where wood constituted the key substance for fuel energy, construction and machinery. While Sombart was positive about the change to an "iron age", Radkau is critical about the alleged decline of “wooden civilisation”. Before the industrial century, the “wood brake”, as he names it, was a component of stability, of the ecology and the traditional economic and social order. In connection with the first medieval mining rushes regional wood shortages gave rise to the first use of sustainability in German forestry. However the situation began to change in the 16th century, as meeting point of the capitalist expansion and the formation of the absolutist state. From the 16th century, world maritime trade, housing construction in Europe and the mountain mining industry brought a sharp rise in timber consumption. The absolutist state asked for a new order of the use of forests and area property rights at the expense of livestock grazing and traditional forest use, as in Resin extraction. Complaints about wood shortages served according Radkau to legitimate state intervention and to exclude of traditional groups of users, as resin workers and wood pasture in favour of more profitable timber consumers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Holznot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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