ISBN:
9780822988847
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A new ecological order
DDC:
304.20947
Keywords:
Ländliche Entwicklung
;
Umwelt
;
Osteuropa
;
Südosteuropa
;
Economic development Environmental aspects
;
History
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Natural resources History
;
Rural development History
;
Electronic books
;
Europe, Eastern Economic conditions
;
Europe, Eastern Environmental conditions
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Umweltbezogenes Management
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Umweltschutz
;
Ländliche Entwicklung
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
;
Osteuropa
;
Südosteuropa Nord
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Planning Development, Changing Nature in Eastern Europe-Stefan Dorondel and Stelu Şerban -- Part I. Planning Territory -- 1. The Quest for a New Urban Landscape: Spatial Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Belgrade Environment-Dragana Ćorović -- 2. From Slavic Swamp to Promised Land: Social and Environmental Engineering in a Southern Macedonian Swamp, 1913-1936-George L. Vlachos -- 3. In Quest of Development: Territorialization and the Transformation of the Southern Ukrainian Wetlands, 1880-1960-Stefan Dorondel and Anna Olenenko -- Part II. Nature, Economy and Experts -- 4. From Weeds to Commodities: The Translation of Plants into Medicines in Early Twentieth-Century Transylvania-Ágota Ábrán -- 5. The Economy of a Leashed River: State, Experts, and Politics along the Lower Danube, 1900-1940-Stelu Şerban and Stefan Dorondel -- 6. From Nature to National Networks: Hydraulic Bureaucracy and the Modernization of Waters in Czechia, 1890s-1960s-Ji ří Janáč -- 7. Big Dam Biographies in Central Asia: Tracing Goals, Actors, and Impacts from World War II to the Present Day-Jeanne Féaux de la Croix and Flora Roberts -- Part III. Imaging New Nature -- 8. Goats, Axes, and Uncertain Narratives: Representations of Nature and People in Asia Minor-Hande Özkan -- 9. Constructing Forest Expertise: Foresters in the Białowieża Forest-Eunice Blavascunas -- 10. The Political Ecology of Scientific Innovation in Russia: A Study of a Muskox Domestication Experiment in Siberia-Vladislava Vladimirova -- 11. Humans, Predators, and State Projects: A Look at the Lower Danube, Northwest Bulgaria-Yulian Konstantinov -- Epilogue. A New Ecological Order at a European Margin-Stefan Dorondel and Helmuth Trischler -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
"The rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress. Far less known are the dramatic environmental changes experienced by Eastern Europe, in many ways a terra incognita for environmental historians and anthropologists. A New Ecological Order explores, from a historical and ethnographic perspective, the role of state planners, bureaucrats, and experts-engineers, agricultural engineers, geographers, biologists, foresters, and architects-as agents of change in the natural world of Eastern Europe from 1870 to the early twenty-first century. Contributors consider territories engulfed by empires, from the Habsburg to the Ottoman to tsarist Russia; territories belonging to disintegrating empires; and countries in the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. Together, they follow a rhetoric of "correcting nature," a desire to exploit the natural environment and put its resources to work for the sake of developing the economies and infrastructures of modern states. They reveal an eagerness among newly established nation-states, after centuries of imperial economic and political impositions, to import scientific knowledge and new technologies from Western Europe that would aid in their economic development, and how those imports and ideas about nature ultimately shaped local projects and policies"--
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