Overview
- Offers insights on the past environmental changes that sharpen reflections to understand the present as to dream and plan a better future?
- A multi-layered historical research crossing disciplines, methodologies and concepts from local to global scales
- Projects environmental history as an applied science building trust through past bad and good experiences to define policies reverting cultural and natural loss
- The most up-to-date academic outcome of experts on environmental history
Part of the book series: Environmental History (ENVHIS, volume 6)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Approaches – (Social Bondage to Maths, Arts or Socio-Biology)
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Proposing – Concepts, Sources, Methodologies
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Clarifying – Results – Interchange of Psico-Social with Natural and Analytical
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Bluring All Confronting Data: New Interpretations, Old Themes, Different Outcomes
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About this book
This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how our cultural background and examples of past territorial intervention can help to combat political and cultural limitations through the common language of environmental benefits without disguising harmful past human interventions.
Considering that political ideologies such as socialism and capitalism, as well as religion, fail to offer global paradigms for common ground, an environmentally positive discourse instead of an ecological determinism might serve as an umbrella common language to overcome blocking factors, real or invented, and avoid repeating ecological loss.
Therefore, agency, environmental speech and historical research are urgently needed inorder to sustain environmental paradigms and overcome political, cultural an economic interests in the public arena.
This book intertwines reflections on our bonds with landscapes, processes of natural and scientific transfer across the globe, the changing of ecosystems, the way in which scientific knowledge has historically both accelerated destruction and allowed a better distribution of vital resources or as it, in today’s world, can offer alternatives that avoid harming those same vital natural resources: water, soil and air. In addition, it shows the relevance of cultural factors both in the taming of nature in favor of human comfort and in the role of the environment matters in the forging of cultural identities, which cannot be detached from technical intervention in the world.
In short, the book firstly studies the past, approaching it as a data set of how the environment has shaped culture, secondly seeks to understand the present, and thirdly assesses future perspectives: what to keep, what to change, and what to dream anew, considering that conventional solutions have not sufficed to protect life on our planet.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental History in the Making
Book Subtitle: Volume I: Explaining
Editors: Estelita Vaz, Cristina Joanaz de Melo, Lígia M. Costa Pinto
Series Title: Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41085-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41083-8Published: 24 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82262-4Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41085-2Published: 13 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-9019
Series E-ISSN: 2211-9027
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 357
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Life Sciences, general