Environmental History in the Making
Volume I: Explaining
Editors: Vaz, Estelita, Joanaz de Melo, Cristina, Costa Pinto, Lígia M. (Eds.)
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- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Cognition and Natural Disasters: Stimulating an Environmental Historical Debate
Pages 3-15
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Peopling Landscapes Through Art
Pages 17-30
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The Power of Stories in the South Moresby Controversy: A Narrative Network Analysis
Pages 31-47
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Exploring Environmental Literacy from a Historical Perspective: How Observations of the Arctic Natural Environment by a Nineteenth-Century Scholar Resulted in a Proposal for Establishing National Parks in the Nordic Countries
Pages 49-69
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Eco-fusion of Alien and Native as a New Conceptual Framework for Historical Ecology
Pages 73-90
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Environmental History in the Making
- Book Subtitle
- Volume I: Explaining
- Editors
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- Estelita Vaz
- Cristina Joanaz de Melo
- Lígia M. Costa Pinto
- Series Title
- Environmental History
- Series Volume
- 6
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-41085-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-41085-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-41083-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-82262-4
- Series ISSN
- 2211-9019
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 357
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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