Pollution and the environment in ancient life and thought /

Was there any awareness of environmental problems among intellectuals and politicians of the ancient world? Did they even have notions of 'pollution', 'exploitation', and 'depletion' of natural resources? And what forms did human action take for the protection of the en...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cordovana, Orietta Dora (Editor ), Chiai, Gian Franco (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2017].
Colección:Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)
Geographica historica ; Bd 36.
Temas:
Human ecology > Philosophy > Early works to 1800.
Environmental sciences > Early works to 1800.
Environmental sciences
Human ecology > Philosophy
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction. The Griffin and the Hunting / Orietta Dora Cordovana/Gian Franco Chiai
  • Environment, pollution, and legal sources
  • Uso e gestione delle acque in Mesopotamia nel Secondo Millennio a. C. / Cristina Simonetti
  • Roman Rural Landscape and Legal Rules / Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi
  • Environment and pollution in literary and epigraphic evidence
  • Ancient Ecology: problems of terminology / Cinzia Bearzot
  • Rivers and Waters Protection in the Ancient World: how religion can protect the environment / Gian Franco Chiai
  • L'evoluzione della sensibilità ambientale a Roma all'inizio del Principato / Arnaldo Marcone
  • Floods of the Tiber in Rome under the Julio-Claudians / Edoardo Bianchi
  • Pliny the Elder and Ancient Pollution / Orietta Dora Cordovana
  • La cultura dell'ambiente in ambito monastico tra V e VIII secolo / Luca Montecchio
  • Environment, pollution, and diseases
  • Malaria and the Environment of Greece / Elizabeth Craik
  • Environmental Diseases according to Papyri from Egypt and Ancient Medical Thought / Isabella Andorlini (†)
  • Pollution and the Environment in Ancient life: Material Evidence
  • Anthropogenic Pollution in Greece and Rome / Alain Bresson
  • Deforestation and Forest Protection in the Ancient World / J. Donald Hughes
  • Roman Spectacles: exploring their environmental implications / Jocelyne Nelis-Clément.

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