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  • - Environment, Governance and Risk
     
    918,95 kr.

    Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands brings together the work of scholars from across Asia to discuss the transforming boundaries, agencies and risks involved in pastoralist livelihoods.

  • - Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States 1682-1865
    af Mark Luccarelli
    923,95 kr.

    Luccarelli roots the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. He considers history in terms of categorical development of space - social, territorial and conceptual - looking at urban and regional contexts, and the work of artists, writers and public figures, including Jefferson, Thoreau and Olmsted.

  • - An Environmental History of a River's Battle for Protection, 1529-2015
    af Leona Skelton
    918,95 kr.

    Study of 500 years of the Tyne that undermines the traditional reduction of rivers to mere backdrops to human activities. Eschewing narratives equating change with improvement, and declensionist ones of destruction, it focuses on the production of new rivers, situating the Tyne's transformations in political, economic, cultural and social contexts

  • - Variety and Vulnerability
    af Gabriella Corona
    358,95 kr.

    Brings together the general lines of interpretation of Italian environmental history from the decades prior to national unification to the present day. Reconstructs processes of change in the use of natural resources in Italy, and the associated environmental and social consequences.

  • af Gufu Oba
    928,95 kr.

    Presents a regional analysis of the spatial and social history of warfare among the nomadic peoples of East Africa, covering a period of 600 years. The long duree facilitates understanding of how warfare among pastoralist communities in earlier centuries contributed to political, economic and ethnic shifts across the grazing lands in East Africa.

  • - Historical Interactions Between Humans and Wolves
     
    420,95 kr.

    This volume aims to grasp the main currents of thought about interactions with the wolf in modern history. It focuses on perceptions, interactions and dependencies, and includes cultural and social analyses as well as biological aspects.

  • - A Social and Cultural History 1800-1914
    af Paul A. Elliott
    921,95 kr.

    This book is the first major study of British urban arboriculture between 1800 and 1914 and draws upon fresh approaches in geographical, urban and environmental history.

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    346,95 kr.

    Farming examines 'the link between the landscape and nutrition', the complex set of factors by which food production results from human knowledge of, interaction with and attempted mastery of the natural environment.

  • - A Comparative History of Mountains in the Modern Era
    af Jon Mathieu
    410,95 kr.

    This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last 500 years. At the book's heart stands the question of whether and in what way the 'three-dimensional history' of mountain people may reveal distinctive forms of development.

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    713,95 kr.

    This reprint of a collection of essays on problems concerning future generations examines questions such as whether intrinsic value should be placed on the preservation of mankind, what are our obligations to posterity, and whether potential people have moral rights.

  • - Nature's Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust
    af Eric Katz
    420,95 - 858,95 kr.

    Katz explores technology's role in dominating both nature and humanity. He argues that technology dominates, and hence destroys, the natural world; it dominates, and hence destroys, critical aspects of human life and society. Technology causes an estrangement from nature, and thus a loss of meaning in human life.

  • - The Philosophical Lives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley/Plumwood
    af Dominic Hyde
    928,95 kr.

    An intellectual biography of pioneering environmental philosophers, Richard Sylvan and Val Plumwood.

  • - Nature and the Social Imagination
     
    998,95 kr.

    Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the 21st c.

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    342,95 kr.

    Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualise their environments, past and present; it offers accounts of indigenous conservation practice and traditional environmental knowledge alongside challenging explorations of how 'knowledge' is filtered through ideologies and subjectivities

  • - Nature and the Social Imagination
     
    418,95 kr.

    Wild Things assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the twenty-first century.

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    342,95 kr.

    The fifth volume in the reader series, 'Themes in Environmental History'. Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies.

  • - New Currents in Marine Environmental History
     
    858,95 kr.

    A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT. There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another.

  • - An Introduction to Biodiversity and Conservation.
    af Ian D. Rotherham
    414,95 kr.

    AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPES. Key issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.

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    340,95 kr.

    The fourth volume in the reader series, 'Themes in Environmental History'. Animals examines human relationships with non-human others, exploring dynamics of exploitation, preservation and cultural interpretation.

  • - An Environmental History of Hungary in the Traditional Age
    af Lajos Racz
    928,95 kr.

    A HISTORY OF HUNGARY'S PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY An account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings.

  • - A History of Peasant - State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860 - 2000
    af Wapulumuka Oliver Mulwafu
    398,95 kr.

    Explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi.

  • - Green Approaches to Global History
     
    420,95 kr.

    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 to politics to the visual arts and architecture - and geographical locations, from Africa and Asia to Europe, North America and Australia.

  • - Integrating People and Their Environments
     
    993,95 kr.

    The volume explores the cultures, environments and histories of deserts from various perspectives, including physics, history, archaeology anthropology. It presents a wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face.

  • - Old Problems, New Challenges
     
    411,95 kr.

    Changing pastoral dynamics make knowledge of pastoralism vital to understanding landscapes, development and governance across dryland regions. Modern Pastoralism and Conservation: Old Problems, New Challenges presents new pastoral research from Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The volume addresses the nature and viability of pastoralism in practi

  • - Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy
    af Marco Armiero
    398,95 - 853,95 kr.

    This book is part of a wider current in environmental history, that explores the links between nature and nation. It uncovers how Italian identity and mountains have constituted one another.

  • - A History of Peasant-state Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860-2000
    af Wapulumuka Oliver Mulwafu
    842,95 kr.

    Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of natural resources, it examines policies and their post-colonial legacy.

  • - Green Approaches to Global History
     
    923,95 kr.

    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 to politics to the visual arts and architecture - and geographical locations, from Africa and Asia to Europe, North America and Australia.

  • - Historical Perspectives
     
    993,95 kr.

    In this innovative collection of historical essays the contributors consider a range of past environmental injustices, spanning seven northern and western European countries and with several chapters adding a North American perspective.

  • - A Forest History
    af John Dargavel & Elisabeth Johann
    415,95 - 853,95 kr.

    A HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE AND IDEAS OF FORESTRY OVER THREE CENTURIES This book tells the story of the hopeful science and trusting art of forestry. It is a story about the hopes of foresters and other scientists to understand the forests more deeply, and about their unspoken trust that their knowledge could ensure an enduring sylvan future

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    336,95 kr.

    Landscapes is the second in our new series of environmental history readers, suitable for students and researchers. Each inexpensive paperback volume addresses an important theme in environmental history, combining underlying theory and specific c

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