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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'the book is highly recommended not only for all environmental historians >but also to other historians. The book offers fresh perspectives on history >in general and, above all, it provides evaluations of common methodological >tools and their application in environmental history that have often and >loudly been requested.' (Petri Juuti, Ymparistohistoria, Finnish Journal of >Environmental History) >'interest over a broad spectrum of themes' (Douglas Weiner, Environmental >History) >' its variety is deliberate and intriguing' (Richard Tucker, Environment and >History)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface - Timo Myllyntaus
Part I. Approaching the Environment of the Past
Chapter 1, Fiona Watson Interdisciplinarity as Disciplinary Co-operation: A Plea for the Future of Environmental History
Chapter 2, Donald Worster Biography and Environmental History
Chapter 3, Frank Uekoetter The Nazis and the Environment - a Relevant Topic?
Part II. Cultural Perceptions of Landscapes
Chapter 4, Dilshad Rahat Ara The Space of a Dwelling - the Temporal Boundaries of Vernacular Architecture in the Chittagong Hills, Bangladesh
Chapter 5, Libby Robin Art and Environmental History: Perceptions of Place and Deep Time in the Australian Desert
Chapter 6, Anu Eskonheimo Desertification - A Significant Problem? Diverse Environmental Literacy in the North Kordofan Area of Sudan
Chapter 7, Timothy Clack Thinking Through Memoryscapes: Symbolic Environmental Potency on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Chapter 8, Leena Rossi Oral History and Individual Environmental Experiences
Part III. Indigenous Peoples and the Pressures of Modernisation
Chapter 9, Helena Ruotsala Ancestors' Wisdom or Desktop Reindeer Management? The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Contemporary Reindeer Herding
Chapter 10, Jukka Nyyssönen Identity Politics and the Alliance Building between the Sami Parliament and Conservationists in the Kessi Forest Dispute
Part IV. Managing Flood Catastrophes
Chapter 11, Jochen Seidel, Paul Dostal, Katrin Bürger, Florian Imbery and Mariano Barriendos Analysis and Reconstruction of the Flood Catastrophe along the River Neckar (SW-Germany) in October 1824
Chapter 12, Guido Poliwoda Times of Flood - Times of Favour. Disaster Management and the Social Response to Catastroph- ic Floods: the Example of Saxony (1784-1845)
Part V. Remoulding Rivers, Reshaping Societies
Chapter 13, Erik Törnlund 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
Chapter 14, Viktor Pal To Act or Not to Act: Water Problems in North-east Hungary after 1945
Preface - Timo Myllyntaus
Part I. Approaching the Environment of the Past
Chapter 1, Fiona Watson Interdisciplinarity as Disciplinary Co-operation: A Plea for the Future of Environmental History
Chapter 2, Donald Worster Biography and Environmental History
Chapter 3, Frank Uekoetter The Nazis and the Environment - a Relevant Topic?
Part II. Cultural Perceptions of Landscapes
Chapter 4, Dilshad Rahat Ara The Space of a Dwelling - the Temporal Boundaries of Vernacular Architecture in the Chittagong Hills, Bangladesh
Chapter 5, Libby Robin Art and Environmental History: Perceptions of Place and Deep Time in the Australian Desert
Chapter 6, Anu Eskonheimo Desertification - A Significant Problem? Diverse Environmental Literacy in the North Kordofan Area of Sudan
Chapter 7, Timothy Clack Thinking Through Memoryscapes: Symbolic Environmental Potency on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Chapter 8, Leena Rossi Oral History and Individual Environmental Experiences
Part III. Indigenous Peoples and the Pressures of Modernisation
Chapter 9, Helena Ruotsala Ancestors' Wisdom or Desktop Reindeer Management? The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Contemporary Reindeer Herding
Chapter 10, Jukka Nyyssönen Identity Politics and the Alliance Building between the Sami Parliament and Conservationists in the Kessi Forest Dispute
Part IV. Managing Flood Catastrophes
Chapter 11, Jochen Seidel, Paul Dostal, Katrin Bürger, Florian Imbery and Mariano Barriendos Analysis and Reconstruction of the Flood Catastrophe along the River Neckar (SW-Germany) in October 1824
Chapter 12, Guido Poliwoda Times of Flood - Times of Favour. Disaster Management and the Social Response to Catastroph- ic Floods: the Example of Saxony (1784-1845)
Part V. Remoulding Rivers, Reshaping Societies
Chapter 13, Erik Törnlund 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
Chapter 14, Viktor Pal To Act or Not to Act: Water Problems in North-east Hungary after 1945
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