Environmental History

As If Nature Existed
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-806448-0
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Ecological Economics & Human Well-Being

This volume brings to the reader the history of the alteration of environment by human action, and the reciprocal influence of the environment upon human history. The collection traces the long history of geographical shifts in human occupation, the difficult path to industrialization, the forced displacements and destruction of forests and marshes, the state-led industrialization in response to poverty, and the destruction of forests due to European colonialism etc. A set of macro- and micro-regional studies of environmental history and economic development with respect to India, China, Bangladesh, and Brazil are discussed. As a whole, this collection offers some of the best recent works at the intersection of two new sub-disciplines taking history, economics, and nature into account.
Contributed by experts in the fields of sociology, history, ecology, and economics, this pioneering work is an invaluable resource for academics of all social science disciplines, environmentalists, economists, anthropologists, urban policy planners, and researchers.

Zielgruppe

Academics, environmentalists, economists, anthropologists, students of development economics, environmental studies, and sociology; and urban policyplanners seeking links between sustainability and development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcneill

Padua, Jose Augusto

Pádua, Josè Augusto

Rangarajan, Mahesh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.: Global Studies
Environmental History in General and in Asia; Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire; Industrialization as a Socio-ecological Transition Process; Urban Sanitation through the Lens of Thomas Kuhn; Economic Development, Environment and Society: Reading Karl William Kapp (1910-1976);

2.: Macro-Regional Studies
Environmental Resources and Chinese Historical Development; Of Nature and Nationalism: Rethinking India's Nehru; European Colonialism and Tropical Forest Destruction in Brazil: The Environmental Dimension beyond Economic History;

3.: Micro-regional Studies
Globalization and Tribal Histories in Eastern India; From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution in India: 1965-2007; Migration and Ecological Consequences: the Case of Kerala, India; Policy Root in Environmental Degradation: the Case of Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.

Über Autor(innen)

Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi; Josè Augusto Pádua, Professor of Environmental History at the History Department and PhD Program on Social History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, J.R. McNeill, University Professor of History, Georgetown University.