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UNINA9911019872203321 |
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Titolo |
A companion to global environmental history / / edited by J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin |
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Chichester, England, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2012 |
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9781782684688 |
1782684689 |
9781118381380 |
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9781118279519 |
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9781118279533 |
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9781299157859 |
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9781118279540 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (xxiv, 544 p. ) : maps |
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Wiley-Blackwell Companions to History |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MauldinErin Stewart |
McNeillJohn Robert |
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Human ecology - History |
Global environmental change - History |
Environmental policy - History |
Environmental protection - History |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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List of Maps x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Global Environmental History: An Introduction xvi J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin PART I TIMES 1 1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3 J. R. McNeill 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18 J. Donald Hughes 3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39 |
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Daniel Headrick 4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57 Robert B. Marks PART II PLACES 79 5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81 Peter Boomgaard 6 Environmental History in Africa 96 Jane Carruthers 7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116 Shawn W. Miller 8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132 Erin Stewart Mauldin 9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153 Liza Piper 10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167 Alan Mikhail 11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182 Libby Robin 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196 Paul D'Arcy 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222 Stephen Brain PART III DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS 245 14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247 David Moon 15 Global Forests 263 Nancy Langston 16 Fishing and Whaling 279 Micah S. Muscolino 17 Riverine Environments 297 Alan Roe 18 War and the Environment 319 Richard P. Tucker 19 Technology and the Environment 340 Paul Josephson 20 Cities and the Environment 360 Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi 21 Evolution and the Environment 377 Edmund Russell 22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 394 Sam White 23 Industrial Agriculture 411 Meredith McKittrick 24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 433 J. R. McNeill PART IV ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT AND ACTION 453 25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 455 Jose Augusto Padua 26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 474 Bao Maohong 27 Religion and Environmentalism 493 Joachim Radkau 28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 513 Joan Martinez-Alier Index 530 |
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This title offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of global environmental history, providing an essential road map to past interpretations, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. |
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UNINA9910345977503321 |
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Engelstad Fredrik |
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Democratic State and Democratic Society : Institutional Change in the Nordic Model / / Fredrik Engelstad, Cathrine Holst, Gunnar C. Aakvaag |
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De Gruyter, 2019 |
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Warsaw ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Open Poland, , [2019] |
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©2018 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (415 p.) |
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democracy, institutions, nordic model |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Democracy, Institutional Compatibility and Change -- 2 Social Institutions and the Quality of Democracy -- 3 A Democratic Way of Life: Institutionalizing Individual Freedom in Norway -- 4 Welfare State Discourse and Citizenship Politics: From 'Silent' Policy to Steering Logic -- 5 Redistributing Knowledge? How Institutions Affect Citizens' Political Knowledge Levels: The Scandinavian Case Compared -- 6 Old and New Social Movements in the Nordic Countries: History and Future in an International Perspective -- 7 Committee Governance in Consensus Cultures: An Exploration of Best Practice Cases in Germany and Norway -- 8 Translation and Institutional Change: What Happened when Participatory Budgeting Came to the Nordic Countries? -- 9 Can Descriptive Representation be Justified outside Politics? -- 10 The Battle over a Fair Share: The Creation of Labour Market Institutions in Norway -- 11 Workplace Democracy: Representation and Participation Gaps in the Norwegian Labour Market Model -- 12 Bowling Alone and Working Together? Social Capital at Work -- 13 Stability and Change in Scandinavian Welfare: The Nonprofit Sector as a Buffer against For-Profit Expansion -- 14 No Factory for Dreams: Street-Level Bureaucrats |
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between Activation Targets and User Orientation -- 15 The Demand for Work-Family Policies in Advanced Capitalist Democracies -- 16 Business Elite Confidence in Political Institutions: The Case of Norway -- 17 Elite Compromise as a Mode of Institutional Change: The United States and Norway Compared -- 18 Afterword: Institutional Differentiation and Change -- About the Authors |
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After the optimism following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has seen more of a democratic backlash. But despite the backlashes, in some societies the stability of democracy does not seem to be threatened. Why is this so? One common answer points to civic culture, a shared feeling of responsibility for the common fate of citizens. An alternative, to be explored in this volume, is that the stability of democratic rule is anchored in its integration in the large set of social institutions with both direct and indirect relationship to politics. These are linked to, give input to and are affected by democratic processes. Where these relations are ubiquitous and strong, democracy is stable. At the same time, institutions are slowly but constantly changing. Hence, in order to understand changes in the functioning of democracy at the level of the state, it is necessary to explore the changes in surrounding institutions and the way they shape a democratic society.The empirical focus of the book is institutional change in the Nordic model, with special emphasis on Norway. There are many reasons to pay closer attention to the Nordic, and Norwegian, case when it comes to analyses of changes in the functioning of democracy. On a par with the other Scandinavian countries, Norway is in the forefront in the world in the quality of democratic governance, as well as social trust and quality of life. As an extreme case, the most corporatist society within the family of the "Nordic Model", Norwegian society offers an opportunity both for intriguing case studies and for challenging and refining existing theory on processes of institutional change.From a theoretical perspective this invites reflections which, to some extent, are at odds with the dominant conceptions of institutional change. Neither models of path dependency nor models of aggregate, incremental change focus on the continuous social bargaining over institutional change. Despite recent processes of differentiation and liberalization, common to the Western world as a whole, corporatism implies a close connection between state, economy, public sphere, cultural life, and knowledge production. This also means that institutions are intimately bundled, in a stronger, subtler and more wide-reaching way than typically assumed in the literature on varieties of capitalism.The volume draws on, but transcends, two prominent theoretical strands: the civil society perspective (a locus classicus being Cohen and Arato 1992), and the more recent work on well-functioning civil service as a precondition for good governance (Rothstein 2011) pointing out the "road to Denmark", (Fukuyama 2014). By embracing more social fields than these two approaches, the institutional approach opens a broader space for democratic reflection. Moreover, institutional-historical case studies situated within Nordic societies as a specific social structural framework, demonstrate the diversity of links between democracy and social life outside of politics in a narrow sense, such as:• Policies of citizenship as a limitation to democracy• Democracy in working life• Democracy and policies of gender relations• Expertise and democratic governance• Social elites - a threat to democracy?• Welfare state institutions as core elements in modern democracy• Institutional perspectives on the emergence of capitalism and democracy A detailed outline of contents and contributors is attached. The book rests on and further develops the former two volumes on institutional change. The first volume is centered on |
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corporatist institutions, with emphasis on negotiations by civil society actors in interplay with the state. Concentrated on the public sphere, the second volume sought to locate processes of social deliberation within the contexts of a public sphere that embraces not only the media, but also fields such as voluntary associations, the arts, and religion. This third volume synthesizes these contributions by bringing them explicitly into the realm of democracy, without mainly focusing on the political institutions as such, but on the surrounding infrastructure. |
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