Title & Author:

Thinking through the environment : green approaches to global history / edited by Timo Myllyntaus.

Publication:

Cambridge : White Horse Press, ©2011.

Description:

xv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface : Methods in environmental history / Timo Myllyntaus -- Interdisciplinarity as disciplinary co-operation : a plea for the future of environmental history / Fiona Watson -- Living in nature : biography and environmental history / Donald Worster -- The Nazis and the environment : a relevant topic? / Frank Uekötter -- The culture of space : temporal precincts of a vernacular architecture in the Chittagong Hills / Dilshad Rahat Ara -- Perceptions of place and deep time in the Australian desert : using art in environmental history / Libby Robin -- Desertification : a significant problem? Diverse environmental literacy in the North Kordofan area in Sudan / Anu Eskonheimo -- Thinking through memoryscapes : symbolic environmental potency on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania / Timothy Clark -- Oral history and individual environmental experiences / Leena Rossi -- Ancestors' wisdom or desktop reindeer management? The role of traditional ecological knowledge in contemproary reindeer herding / Helena Ruotsala -- Identity politics and alliance building between the Sami delegation and conservationists in the Kessi forest dispute / Jukka Nyyssönen -- Reconstruction and analysis of the flood catastrophe along the River Neckar (South-West Germany) in October 1824 / Jochen Seidel [and others] -- Times of flood, times of favour : disaster management and the social response to catastrophic floods : the example of Saxony (1784-1845) / Guido Poliwoda -- 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 -- To act or not to act : water problems in north-east Hungary after 1945 / Viktor Pál.

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ISBN:

1874267626
9781874267621
9781874267713
1874267715

Subject:

Human ecology History.
Landscapes.
Indigenous peoples.
Floods.
River engineering.
Paysages.
Inondations.
Technologie fluviale.
landscapes (environments)
floods (natural events)
Human ecology
Humanökologie
Kultur
Umweltveränderung

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Myllyntaus, Timo.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293767
Call No.: BIB 238931
Status: Available