Oxford intersections. Environmental change and human experience / Georgina Endfield (editor in chief), Poul Holm (editor in chief)

Format:

Website/Database

Contributor:

Endfield, Georgina H., editor.

Holm, Poul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global environmental change.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Began in 2026

illustration

Other Title:

Environmental change and human experience

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press

Summary:

"Environmental change is a fundamental concern across the humanities and social sciences. This Intersection explores the changing interrelationships of people and their environments over time and across different spaces. Attention focuses on changes in the natural and built environment both as concrete entities (physical places) and as abstract entities (the politically, socially and culturally constructed places and spaces we inhabit), and the lenses through which the world is viewed, understood, and experienced, and which help us to create a sense of belonging or exclusion. Environmental Change and Human Experience explores the changing, multi-directional, and delicately balanced human-environmental relationship throughout history. It also recognises that human societies have been shaped through their relationships with other animals, whether as sources of food and labour, companions, competitors, or objects of cultural meaning. Questions about environmental change over time are not new, but they have been transformed in recent years by the widespread growth of interdisciplinary methodologies, the establishment of the environmental humanities, advances in science and technology, and the urgency of climate catastrophe. Building on, and seeking to accelerate, this transformation, Environmental Change and Human Experience will consider issues of place and space at a range of scales from the local to the global and across history, working at a range of timescales (decadal to millennial). The dual aim is to address the most important questions in the environmental humanities and social sciences, while showcasing the best scholarship in the field. The Intersection will not only reassess the history of our changing relationship with our environment, both concrete and abstract, but will also assess the contemporary reality of our relationship with our environment through a historical lens. It will ask how we have shaped our environment and how our environment has shaped us, indirectly and directly, and will explore how thinking and scientific knowledge about human-environment interactions have changed in different spatio-temporal contexts and on a range of contemporary issues, from climate emergency to the continuing legacies of empire"-- Home page

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Content viewed on August 20, 2026; title from home page

ISBN:

019894523X

9780198945239

OCLC:

1593910116

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license