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The Silent COUNTDOWN : Essays in European Environmental History /

Written by natural scientists and historians, The Silent Countdown explores relations between societies and their natural environment from the Middle Ages to the present. Global views of ecological history in the long term are provided as well as sophisticated models quantifying the flow of energy a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brimblecombe, Peter
Otros Autores: Pfister, Christian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1990.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Holistic Conceptions
  • The Energy System
  • A Basic Concept of Environmental History
  • From Ecological History to World Ecology
  • The Early Loss of Ecological Stability in an Agrarian Region
  • An Anthropological Perspective of Environment, Population, and Social Structure in the Alps
  • Environmental History: Some Questions for a New Subdiscipline of History
  • Reflections on a Typology of Historical Pollution: Complementary Conceptions
  • Agricultural and Sylvicultural Impacts
  • Aspects of Historical Soil Erosion in Western Europe
  • Natural Environment and Human Settlement over the Central European Lowland in the 13th Century
  • Sylviculture and Forest Administration in Hungary 11th-20th Centuries
  • The Ecological Background of the Livelihood of Peasants in Kuusamo (NE Finland) During the Period 1670-1970
  • Urban and Industrial Impacts
  • Environmental History
  • The Environmental Evidence
  • "Policey" and Environment as a Form of "Social Discipline" in Early Modern Hamburg
  • Environmental Policy in 19th-Century Leyden
  • Air Pollution in York 1850-1900
  • Experts in the Smelter Smoke Debate
  • The Ruhr Basin 1850-1980: A Case of Large-Scale Environmental Pollution
  • Environmental Consciousness
  • The Evolution of Environmental Sensitivity 1750-1950
  • The Obscure Problems: Rationalization, Power, and the Discovery of Environmental Problems.