Common ground : integrating the social and environmental in history / edited by Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud and Stephen Mosley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Massard-Guilbaud, Geneviève.

Mosley, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on--History--Congresses.

Nature.

Human ecology--History--Congresses.

Human ecology.

Human ecology--Social aspects--Congresses.

Human beings--Effect of environment on--History--Congresses.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Today's environmental problems - climate change, loss of biodiversity, polluted air, land, and water - all have their origins to a greater or lesser extent in how we have lived, played and worked. At a time when societies are confronted Other the often dramatic consequences of past choices made in the fields of energy, technology, industry, agriculture, urbanisation and consumption, we need a history that casts more light on the ways in which unsustainable human-nature relationships came into ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; LEISURE AND ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; NATURE AND CONSERVATION; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; FOLK AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; ENERGY, INDUSTRY AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Emerged from the conference 'Common ground, converging gazes', held in September 2008 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-14175-2

1-4438-2601-4

9786613141750

OCLC:

741454075