ISBN:
9780230245099
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 368 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nature's end
DDC:
304.209
Keywords:
Human ecology History
;
Environmental protection History
;
Environmental policy History
;
Environmental sciences History
;
Human ecology History
;
Electronic books
;
Mensch
;
Umwelt
;
Anthropogene Klimaänderung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Making the Environment Historical - An Introduction; Part I: The Rise of the Environmental; Part II: History and the Environmental Sciences; Part III: Making Space: Environments and Their Contexts; Part IV: 'Things Human'; Afterword; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Making the environment historical : an introduction / Sverker Sörlin and Paul WardeImperialism, intellectual networks, and environmental change : unearthing the origins and evolution of global environmental history / Richard Grove and Vinita Damodaran -- Separation, proprietorship and community in the history of conservation / William M. Adams -- The environmental history of pre-industrial agriculture in Europe / Paul Warde -- The global warming that did not happen : historicizing glaciology and climate change / Sverker Sörlin -- Genealogies of the ecological moment : planning, complexity and the emergence of 'the environment' as politics in West Germany, 1949-1982 / Holger Nehring -- The environmental history of mountain regions / Robert A. Dodgshon -- Interdisciplinary conversations : the collective model / A. Hamilton ... [et al.] -- New science for sustainability in an ancient land / Libby Robin -- 54, 40 or fight : writing within and across borders in North American environmental history / Matthew Evenden and Graeme Wynn -- Modernity and the politics of waste in Britain / Tim Cooper -- Why intensify? The outline of a theory of the institutional causes driving long-term changes in Chinese farming and the consequent modifications to the environment / Mark Elvin -- Reconsidering climate and causality : case studies from colonial Mexico / Georgina Endfield -- Destinies and decisions : taking the life-world seriously in environmental history / Kirsten Hastrup.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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