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Essays in European Environmental History

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Peter Brimblecombe

    1. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

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  2. Christian Pfister

    1. Historisches Institut, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Urban and Industrial Impacts

    1. The Ruhr Basin 1850–1980: A Case of Large-Scale Environmental Pollution

      • F.-J. Brüggemeier
      Pages 210-227

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 263-265
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There is a growing need for cooperation between disciplines, not only to deal with the burning problems of the present, but to study the interaction of societies and their ecosystems in the past. In the 1970s studies in Environmental History were largely confined to North America. Recent years have brought about a vast increase in the "amount, the quality and the scope of scholarship on historical interactions between human (social and economic) de­ velopment and the biosphere in Europe, both East and West. This broad interest in environmental history may have been heightened and sharpened by the dangers of unbridled technology and unlimited growth, which are becoming more and more manifest. However, for several reasons it is still difficult to become familiar with the different approaches to this new and interdisciplinary of study. Many fields of thought - biology, anthropology, field geography, sociology and history - are involved; the relevant books and articles are hard to find and a coherent theoretical framework is still lacking, because the key issues have yet to be submitted to a thorough scholarly debate. It is hoped that the pre­ sent volume will make a contribution towards overcoming those shortcomings.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Peter Brimblecombe

  • Historisches Institut, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Christian Pfister

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