Environmental History in the Making Volume II: Acting
This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Series: | Environmental History
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Using resources - stories of resources exploitation in time and its evolving in the long run)
- 2. Transforming in sito – manipulating, changing, evolving landscapes, waterscapes, airscapes (classical approach of territorial changing, causes, actors and consequences)
- 3. Transferring –migrations - resources exploitation and trade; local to global – native sources, new case studies tans-continental approaches
- 4. Conscience of loss, awareness of need, Improving – nowadays awareness of how we arrive here, undoing wrong territorial policies with environmental impact
- 5. Civic and political agency - history as memory of social process, knowing the past planning the future