Thinking through the environment
Subtitle: green approaches to global history
By: edited by Timo Myllyntaus
Publisher: White Horse Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781874267621
Subjects: Floods; Umweltveränderung; Humanökologie; Indigenous peoples; Human ecology; History; Landscapes; River engineering; Kultur
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Methods in environmental history / Timo Myllyntaus; title: Interdisciplinarity as disciplinary co-operation : a plea for the future of environmental history / Fiona Watson; title: Living in nature : biography and environmental history / Donald Worster; title: The Nazis and the environment : a relevant topic? / Frank Uekötter; title: The culture of space : temporal precincts of a vernacular architecture in the Chittagong Hills / Dilshad Rahat Ara; title: Perceptions of place and deep time in the Australian desert : using art in environmental history / Libby Robin; title: Desertification : a significant problem? Diverse environmental literacy in the North Kordofan area in Sudan / Anu Eskonheimo; title: Thinking through memoryscapes : symbolic environmental potency on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania / Timothy Clark; title: Oral history and individual environmental experiences / Leena Rossi; title: Ancestors' wisdom or desktop reindeer management? The role of traditional ecological knowledge in contemproary reindeer herding / Helena Ruotsala; title: Identity politics and alliance building between the Sami delegation and conservationists in the Kessi forest dispute / Jukka Nyyssönen; title: Reconstruction and analysis of the flood catastrophe along the River Neckar (South-West Germany) in October 1824 / Jochen Seidel ... [et al.]; title: Times of flood, times of favour : disaster management and the social response to catastrophic floods : the example of Saxony (1784-1845) / Guido Poliwoda; title: From natural to modified rivers and back? Timber floating in northern Sweden in 1850-1980 and the use of historical knowledge in today's ecological stream restoration / Erik Törnlund; title: To act or not to act : water problems in north-east Hungary after 1945 / Viktor Pál.