Explorations In Environmental History

Author : Samuel P. Hays
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0822971844

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Explorations in Environmental History by Samuel P. Hays Pdf

Samuel P. Hays is one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of environmental history and the leading thinker of its first generation. The range and quality of the scholarship collected here reflect his work as a teacher, scholar, and activist writing in environmental history and provide a powerful exclamation point to a long and distinguished career. The depth of Hays’s research is evident on every page of this collection. He was not one who published just to publish; he wrote what was important and spoke to the heart of continuing debates about the environment from 1959, with the publication of Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency to the present day. As well as representing his best work from the past four decades, this collection includes four pieces published here for the first time. One of these, the opening essay, is Hay’s autobiographical account of his encounters with many participants in environmental studies and those vigorously involved in contemporary environmental politics. Amid the entire series of environmental dramas that have engaged his attention, he has sought “to establish the case that a perspective of change and evolution over time, the focus of the historian, can be of immense value in informing the ongoing debates over environmental affairs.” This argument runs through this work.

Author : Samuel P. Hays
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 061392262X

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Explorations in Environmental History by Samuel P. Hays Pdf

Explorations in Environmental History represents four decades of writing from one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of environmental history.& Samuel Hays's dedication and research is apparent in every one of these essays, four of which are published here for the first time.

Author : Onur Inal,Yavuz Köse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912186810

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Seeds of Power by Onur Inal,Yavuz Köse Pdf

Author : L. Anders Sandberg,Stephen Bocking,Ken Cruikshank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1926633660

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Urban Explorations by L. Anders Sandberg,Stephen Bocking,Ken Cruikshank Pdf

"The publication of Urban Explorations, the first collection to tour the environmental history of Canada's foremost city, is so welcome. Its sixteen chapters trace how the economic and demographic development of the Toronto region has remade the environment, and how that in turn has affected the peoples and societies living here. The book chronicles not just how people and nature related in the past, but also how that has shaped the present, and what that suggests for the future. But more than this, the book's existence signals that Canadian environmental history, often preoccupied by the Canada of the north and the Canada of the wild, is giving increasing consideration to the Canada of cities, the places where the majority of Canadians actually live." - Alan MacEachern Inspired by the field trips organized for the American Society for Environmental History's 2013 conference in Toronto, Urban Explorations invites readers to look for nature in the built environment, and the built environment in the natural world. Maps, images and essays guide readers through sixteen different journeys in the region, from downtown Toronto to the Oak Ridges Moraine, from the Leslie Street Spit to Niagara Falls, from the sacred Indigenous mounds of High Park to the queer groves of David A. Balfour Park, from the engineering achievements of R.C. Harris to the imagined landscapes of Lawren Harris.

Author : P. Boomgaard,Freek Colombijn,David Henley
Publisher : Brill
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041608855

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Paper Landscapes by P. Boomgaard,Freek Colombijn,David Henley Pdf

Too much of what has so far passed for the 'historical background' to Indonesia's environmental problems has consisted of little more than thinly disguised backward projections of modern trends. The writers in this volume report on their own pioneer journeys into the paper landscapes of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.

Author : J. Donald Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134017829

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An Environmental History of the World by J. Donald Hughes Pdf

This book is an overview of human history in relationship to the natural environment, from origins to the present, with case studies of different societies in each period

Author : John Soluri,Claudia Leal,José Augusto Pádua
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785333910

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A Living Past by John Soluri,Claudia Leal,José Augusto Pádua Pdf

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.

Author : Samuel P. Hays
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0822972247

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A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945 by Samuel P. Hays Pdf

An overview of contemporary environmental affairs, from 1940s to the present—with an emphasis on nature in an urbanized society, land developments, environmental technology, the structure of environmental politics, environmental opposition, and the results of environmental policy.

Author : Anne Marie Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134075461

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Communicating Environmental Patriotism by Anne Marie Todd Pdf

Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country’s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism in America through the intriguing stories of environmental patriots and the rhetoric of their speeches and propaganda, The See America First movement began in 1906 with the aim of protecting and promoting the landscapes of the American West. In 1908, Gifford Pinchot and President Theodore Roosevelt hosted the White House Conservation Conference to promote the wise use of natural resources for generations of Americans. In 1912, Pittsburgh’s smoke investigation condemned the effects of coal smoke on the city’s environment. In World War II, a massive propaganda effort mobilized millions of Americans to plant victory gardens to save resources for the war abroad. While these may not seem like crucial moments for the American environmental movement, this new history of American environmentalism shows that they are linked by patriotism. The book offers a provoking critique of environmentalists’ communication strategies and suggests patriotism as a persuasive hook for new ways to make environmental issues a national priority. This original research should be of interest to scholars of environmental communication, environmental history, American history and environmental philosophy.

Author : Nancy C. Unger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199735075

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Beyond Nature's Housekeepers by Nancy C. Unger Pdf

This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists.

Author : Dipesh Chakrabarty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226733050

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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age by Dipesh Chakrabarty Pdf

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider—from the changed nature of human agency to a new acceptance of universals. Chakrabarty argues that we must see ourselves from two perspectives at once: the planetary and the global. This distinction is central to Chakrabarty’s work—the globe is a human-centric construction, while a planetary perspective intentionally decenters the human. Featuring wide-ranging excursions into historical and philosophical literatures, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age boldly considers how to frame the human condition in troubled times. As we open ourselves to the implications of the Anthropocene, few writers are as likely as Chakrabarty to shape our understanding of the best way forward.

Author : Serenella Iovino,Enrico Cesaretti,Elena Past
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813941080

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Italy and the Environmental Humanities by Serenella Iovino,Enrico Cesaretti,Elena Past Pdf

Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies--to move past cliché and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia’s trafficking, Slow Food’s gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites, and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions, but the entire debate on environmental culture. Contributors: Marco Armiero, Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm * Franco Arminio, Writer, poet, and filmmaker * Patrick Barron, University of Massachusetts * Damiano Benvegnù, Dartmouth College and the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics * Viktor Berberi, University of Minnesota, Morris * Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University * Luca Bugnone, University of Turin * Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia *Almo Farina, University of Urbino * Sophia Maxine Farmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Serena Ferrando, Colby College * Tiziano Fratus, Writer, poet, and tree-seeker * Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University * Andrea Hajek, University of Warwick * Marcus Hall, University of Zurich * Serenella Iovino, University of Turin * Andrea Lerda, freelance curator * Roberto Marchesini, Study Center of Posthuman Philosophy in Bologna * Marco Moro, Editor-in-Chief of Edizioni Ambiente, Milan * Elena Past, Wayne State University * Carlo Petrini, Founder of International Slow Food Movement * Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, Miami University (Ohio)* Monica Seger, College of William and Mary * Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California, San Diego

Author : Emily O'Gorman,William San Martín,Mark Carey,Sandra Swart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003801955

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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History by Emily O'Gorman,William San Martín,Mark Carey,Sandra Swart Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field’s growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The roles of non-humans and the more-than-human in the telling of environmental histories, from animals and plants to insects as vectors of disease and the influences of water and ice, the changing theoretical approaches and the influence of concepts in related areas such as animal and discard studies. How changes in theories and concepts are shaping methods in environmental history and shifting approaches to traditional sources like archives and oral histories as well as experiments by practitioners with new methods and sources. Responses to a range of current complex problems, such as climate change, and how environmental historians can best help mitigate and resolve these problems. Diverse ways in which environmental historians disseminate their research within and beyond academia, including new modes of research dissemination, teaching, and engagements with stakeholders and the policy arena. This is an important resource for environmental historians, researchers and students in the related fields of political ecology, environmental studies, natural resources management and environmental planning. Chapters 9, 10 and 26 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Matthew D. Evenden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139452007

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Fish versus Power by Matthew D. Evenden Pdf

Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development and declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores the transnational forces that shaped the river, the changing knowledge and practices of science, and the role of environmental change in shaping environmental debate. The Fraser is the world's most productive salmon river; it is also a large river with enormous waterpower potential. Very few rivers in the developed world have remained undammed. On the Fraser, however, fish - not dams - triumphed, and this book seeks to explain why.

Author : Kyrre Kverndokk,Marit Ruge Bjærke,Anne Eriksen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000337006

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Climate Change Temporalities by Kyrre Kverndokk,Marit Ruge Bjærke,Anne Eriksen Pdf

Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced, detailed, and specific understandings and concepts are required to handle the challenges of a climatically changed world, politically and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting abstractly on theories of temporality, this edited collection explores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives, experience, popular culture, and everyday life in addition to science and history - and the entanglements between them. The chapters are clustered into three main sections, exploring a range of genres, such as questionnaires, interviews, magazines, news media, television series, aquariums, and popular science books to critically examine how and where climate change understandings are formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of climate and temporality by exploring scientific debates and practices. Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research, environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity, cultural studies, cultural history, and popular culture.