×


 x 

Shopping cart
Estelita . Ed(S): Vaz - Environmental History in the Making - 9783319411378 - V9783319411378
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Environmental History in the Making

€ 187.46
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Environmental History in the Making Hardback. Editor(s): Vaz, Estelita. Series: Environmental History. Num Pages: 390 pages, 23 black & white illustrations, 21 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; PSA; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 748.

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 our cultural background and examples of past territorial intervention can help to combat political and cultural limitations through the common language of environmental benefits without disguising harmful past human interventions.

Considering that political ideologies such as socialism and capitalism, as well as religion, fail to offer global paradigms for common ground, ... Read more

Therefore, agency, environmental speech and historical research are urgently neededin order to sustain environmental paradigms and overcome political, cultural an economic interests in the public arena.

This book intertwines reflections on our bonds with landscapes, processes of natural and scientific transfer across the globe, the changing of ecosystems, the way in which scientific knowledge has historically both accelerated destruction and allowed a better distribution of vital resources or as it, in today’s world, can offer alternatives that avoid harming those same vital natural resources: water, soil and air. In addition, it shows the relevance of cultural factors both in the taming of nature in favor of human comfort and in the role of the environment matters in the forging of cultural identities, which cannot be detached from technical intervention in the world.

In short, the book firstly studies the past, approaching it as a data set of how the environment has shaped culture, secondly seeks to understand the present, and thirdly assesses future perspectives: what to keep, what to change, and what to dream anew, considering that conventional solutions have not sufficed to protect life on our planet.

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
Series
Environmental History
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319411378
SKU
V9783319411378
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

Reviews for Environmental History in the Making

Goodreads reviews for Environmental History in the Making


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!