Environmental History in the Making
Volume II: Acting
Editors: Joanaz de Melo, Cristina, Vaz, Estelita, Costa Pinto, Lígia M. (Eds.)
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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 in order 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.
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Agriculture and Livestock in Wetlands in the Bogota Plateau (Colombia), Eighteenth Century. Land Use and Wetland Management
Pages 3-13
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Modern Urban Development and Revolution in Mexico: Hydraulic Infrastructure in Chihuahua City During the Porfiriato (1892–1911)
Pages 15-31
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Digging into Our Whaling Past: Addressing the Portuguese Influence in the Early Modern Exploitation of Whales in the Atlantic
Pages 33-47
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Good Fisheries vs. Bad Fisheries: Ideological and Scientific Base for the Governmental Projects of Modernization of Russian System of Marine Harvesting in the Eighteenth Century
Pages 49-70
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Water Management and Dam Construction in the Italian South
Pages 73-93
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- Book Title
- Environmental History in the Making
- Book Subtitle
- Volume II: Acting
- Editors
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- Cristina Joanaz de Melo
- Estelita Vaz
- Lígia M. Costa Pinto
- Series Title
- Environmental History
- Series Volume
- 7
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-41139-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-41139-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-41137-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-82276-1
- Series ISSN
- 2211-9019
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 376
- Number of Illustrations
- 23 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
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