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Environmental History in the Making - Volume II: Acting (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Environmental History in the Making - Volume II: Acting (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Environmental History, 7
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This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on
Environmental History, held in Guimaraes, 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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