Thinking Through the Environment - Green Approaches to Global History (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Whitehorse Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	June 2011
Editors:	Timo Myllyntaus
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Laminated cover
Pages:	314
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-874267-62-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	1-874267-62-6
Barcode:	9781874267621

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