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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298387903321

Titolo

The Basic Environmental History / / edited by Mauro Agnoletti, Simone Neri Serneri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-09180-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Environmental History, , 2211-9019 ; ; 4

Disciplina

304.209

Soggetti

Landscape ecology

History

Environment

Human geography

Environmental economics

Pollution

Landscape Ecology

History, general

Environment, general

Human Geography

Environmental Economics

Pollution, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Mauro Agnoletti, Simone Neri Serneri -- Contributors -- 1. Energy in history; Paolo Malanima -- 2. Economic history and the environment: new questions, approaches and methodologies; Enric Tello Aragay, Gabriel Jover Avellà -- 3. Environmental history of soils; Verena Winiwarter -- 4. Environmental history of water resources; Stephane Frioux -- 5. Environmental history of air pollution and protection; Stephen Mosley -- 6. Urban development and environment; Dieter Schott -- 7. History of Waste Management and the Social and Cultural Representations of Waste; Sabine Barles -- 8. History of technological hazards, disasters and accidents; Gianni Silei.



Sommario/riassunto

This book is an introductory instrument to the main themes of environmental history, illustrating its development over time, methodological implications, results achieved and those still under discussion. But the overriding aspiration is to show that the doubts, methods and knowledge elaborated by environmental history have a heuristic value that is far from negligible precisely in its attitude to the most consolidated major historiography. For this reason, this book gives an overview of environmental history as it is an essential component of the basic knowledge of global history. At the same time, it introduces specific aspects which are useful both for anyone wanting to deepen his/her studies of environmental historiography and for those interested in one of the many disciplinary areas – from rural history to urban history, from the history of technology to the history of public health, etc. with which environmental history develops a dialogue.