Encountering the past in nature : essays in environmental history /

"A deeper understanding of contemporary environmental problems requires us to know where we come from, and the study of environmental history will help us in that quest. Environmental history, in short, may be described as an attempt to study the interaction between humans and nature in the pas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Myllyntaus, Timo, Saikku, Mikko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2001.
Edición:Rev. ed.
Colección:Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Temas:
Human ecology > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > History.
Forests and forestry > History.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Forests and forestry
Human ecology
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Milieuvraagstuk.
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Anthropogeography & Human Ecology.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Environmental history: a new discipline with long traditions / Timo Myllyntaus and Mikko Saikku
  • Modernization and the concept of nature: on the reproduction of environmental stereotypes / Ari Aukusti Lehtinen
  • Life in the borderland forests: the takeover of nature and its social organization in North Karelia / Ismo Björn
  • The vanishing and reappearing tropical forest: forest management and land use in Thailand / Olavi Luukkanen
  • "Home in the big forest": decline of the ivory-billed woodpecker and its habitat in the United States / Mikko Saikku
  • Environment in explaining history: restoring humans as part of nature / Timo Myllyntaus.

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