Book ID: CBB149601183

Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (2011)

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Myllyntaus, Timo (Editor)


White Horse Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 314 pages
Language: English

Thinking through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History is a collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses - from history and politics to the visual arts and architecture. Its geographical coverage extends to locations in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. A primary aim of the volume is, through the presentation of research cases, to gather an appropriate methodological arsenal for the study of environmental history. Among its concerns are interdisciplinarity, eco-biography, the relationship of political and environmental history and culturally varied interpretations and appreciations of space - from Bangladesh to the Australian outback. The approaches of the indigenous peoples of Lapland, Mount Kilimanjaro and elsewhere to their environments are scrutinised in several chapters. Balancing survival - both in terms of resource exploitation and of response to natural catastrophes - and environmental protection is shown to be an issue for more and less developed societies, as illustrated by chapters on Sami reindeer herding, Sudanese cattle husbandry and flooding and water resource-use in several parts of Europe. As the title suggests, the volume exposes the lenses - tinted by culture and history - through which humans consider environments; and also foregrounds the importance of rigor- ous 'thinking through' of the lessons of environmental history and the challenges of the environmental future.

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Review Hilde Ibsen (2011) Review of "Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 138-140). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Guido Poliwoda (2011) Times of Flood, Times of Favour: Disaster Management and the Social Response to Catastrophic Floods: The Example of Saxony (1784-1845). In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 218-240). unapi

Chapter Helena Ruotsala (2011) Ancestors' Wisdom or Desktop Reindeer Management? The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Contemproary Reindeer Herding. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 159-178). unapi

Chapter Viktor Pál (2011) To Act or Not to Act: Water Problems in North-East Hungary After 1945. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 268-288). unapi

Chapter Erik Törnlund (2011) From Natural to Modified Rivers and Back? Timber Floating in Northern Sweden in 1850-1980 and the Use of Historical Knowledge in Today's Ecological Stream Restoration. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 243-267). unapi

Chapter Libby Robin (2011) Perceptions of Place and Deep Time in the Australian Desert: Using Art in Environmental History. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 81-99). unapi

Chapter Dilshad Rahat Ara (2011) The Culture of Space: Temporal Precincts of a Vernacular Architecture in the Chittagong Hills. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 63-80). unapi

Chapter Paul Dostal; Jochen Seidel; Katrin Bürger; Marioano Barriendos; Florian Imbery (2011) Reconstruction and Analysis of the Flood Catastrophe Along the River Neckar (South-West Germany) in October 1824. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 201-217). unapi

Chapter Donald Worster (2011) Living in Nature: Biography and Environmental History. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 28-39). unapi

Chapter Frank Uekötter (2011) The Nazis and the Environment: A Relevant Topic?. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 40-59). unapi

Chapter Timothy Clark (2011) Thinking Through Memoryscapes: Symbolic Environmental Potency on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 115-134). unapi

Chapter Jukka Nyyssönen (2011) Identity Politics and Alliance Building Between the Sami Delegation and Conservationists in the Kessi Forest Dispute. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 179-198). unapi

Chapter Anu Eskonheimo (2011) Desertification: A Significant Problem? Diverse Environmental Literacy in the North Kordofan Area in Sudan. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 100-114). unapi

Chapter Leena Rossi (2011) Oral History and Individual Environmental Experiences. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 135-156). unapi

Chapter Fiona Watson (2011) Interdisciplinarity as Disciplinary Co-Operation: A Plea for the Future of Environmental History. In: Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History (pp. 17-27). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Henry, Matthew
O'Gorman, Emily
Beattie, James
Garden, Don
Bostock, Helen C.
Lorrey, Andrew M.
Concepts
Environment
Colonialism
Climate change
Geography
Weather
Photography of railroads
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Early modern
18th century
17th century
Places
Asia
Australia
New Zealand
Europe
North America
Africa
Institutions
The Friends of Photography
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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