An environmental history of the early modern period
Subtitle: experiments and perspectives
By: edited by Martin Knoll and Reinhold Reith
Contributors: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Series: Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft. Geschichte; Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9783643904638
Subjects: Human ecology; Congresses; History; Climatology; Land use
Notes: "This volume documents the proceedings of an exploratory workshop hosted by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, in February 2011"--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-95).
Table of contents: title: Balancing between reconstructing past climate and human dimensions of destructive weather : the crux and challenge of historical climatology / Christian Pfister; title: Common grounds in early modern disaster experiences? : some remarks on new trends in historical disaster research as part of environmental history and climate history / Gerrit Jasper Schenk; title: The environmental history of rivers in the early modern period / Martin Schmid; title: Water, environmental history and future research : some methodological remarks / Salvatore Ciriacono; title: The forest as a topic of environmental history / Reinhold Reith; title: Ecology, religion, human retreat, and global imagination : some research perspectives on the history of woodlands in early modern Central Europe / Richard Hölzl; title: From "urban gap" to social metabolism : the early modern city in environmental history research / Martin Knoll; title: Environmental perspectives on pre-modern European cities : difficulties and possibilities / Georg Stöger; title: Land use and agrarian knowledge as topics of early-modern environmental history / Verena Winiwarter; title: Knowledge and perception of mountains in history : new perspectives for research / Simona Boscani Leoni; title: Land use, agricultural knowledge and landscape perception as topics for early modern environmental history / Marcus Popplow.