An environmental history of Great Britain
Subtitle: from 10,000 years ago to the present
By: I.G. Simmons.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Britain -- History.; Human geography -- Great Britain -- History.
Description: Of environmental change involving humans. p. 45.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; title: The purpose and scope of the book; title: Nature and culture in the last 10,000 years; title: Frameworks for the reader; title: Links between economy and environment; title: Committed history?; title: The organisation of the material; title: Chapter 2 HUNTER-GATHERERS AND FISHERFOLK: 10,000 TO 5000 BP; title: Introduction: the beginning; title: The current interglacial; title: People and cultures; title: Environment and culture; title: The possible role of humans; title: A summary of environmental change involving humans; title: Into the agricultural era; title: Chapter 3 SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT: AGRICULTURALISTS; title: Introduction: a very long duration; title: Atmospheric changes: the climate; title: Cultivated land and grasslands; title: Relations with the woodlands; title: The creation of new landforms; title: Heaths and moorlands; title: Industries; title: Sacred space; title: The social context; title: Overview; title: Chapter 4 CLOSED AND OPEN SYSTEMS, AD 550 TO AD 1700; title: Atmospheric changes: the climate; title: Landform change; title: Agriculture and grasslands; title: Heaths, moors and mountains; title: Woods and forests; title: Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands; title: Rural settlement; title: Urban settlement; title: Industry; title: Pleasure and the environment; title: Energy; title: Sacred space; title: Social context; title: Connections: at home and abroad; title: Sensibilities and attitudes to environment; title: Chapter 5 BUILDING JERUSALEM: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; title: The atmosphere; title: Woods and forests; title: Agriculture and grasslands; title: Heaths, moors and mountains; title: Sensibilities and attitudes to environment; title: Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands; title: Rural settlement; title: Urban settlement; title: Industry; title: Energy; title: The rich and their pleasure; title: Sacred space; title: The extension of the economy; title: A century's trends; title: Chapter 6 INDUSTRIAL GROWTH: MATERIAL EMPIRES, 1800-1914; title: The atmosphere; title: Landforms; title: Woods and forests; title: Agriculture; title: Heaths, moors and mountains; title: Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands; title: Fishing and whaling; title: Energy; title: Industry; title: Urban settlement; title: Rural settlement; title: Leisure and pleasure; title: Sacred space; title: Wildlife and its protection; title: International linkages; title: Sensibilities and attitudes to environment; title: A summary; title: Chapter 7 'A FIT COUNTRY FOR HEROES, 1914-50; title: Climate; title: Landforms; title: Woods and forests; title: Agriculture and grasslands; title: Heaths, moors and mountains; title: Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands; title: Industry and wastes; title: Urban settlement; title: Rural settlement; title: Military lands; title: The coasts; title: Fishing and whaling; title: Energy; title: Environmental protection and conservation; title: Specialised leisure; title: Sacred space; title: Administration and planning; title: Sensibilities and attitudes to environment; title: The 1950s: legacies and foreshadowings; title: Chapter 8 A POST-INDUSTRIAL WORLD, 1950 TO THE PRESENT; title: Introduction: millennium fever; title: Atmosphere and climate; title: Landforms; title: Fresh water; title: Forestry and woodlands; title: Agriculture; title: Sacred space; title: Fresh-water wetlands; title: Heaths, moors and other commons; title: Military lands; title: Conservation and landscape protection; title: Rural settlement: the rural economy; title: The urban-industrial environment; title: Land use: the overall picture; title: Leisure and environment; title: Coasts; title: Fisheries in the post-industrial world; title: Energy; title: Population trends; title: Administration; title: The international scene; title: Sensibilities and attitudes to environment; title: Contradictions of the time; title: Chapter 9 EXPERIENCE AND MEANING; title: Introduction: many pasts; title: Critical periods; title: Cultural context; title: Pathways; title: Appendix 1 THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT FROM THE AIR; title: Notes; title: Biographies; title: Glossary; title: A selected bibliography; title: Index.