Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective.

Bailes, Kendall E. (ed.) American Society for Environmental History (ed.) (1985): Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective. Lanham: University Press of America.

Abstract

Over one hundred scholars assembled for the conference. Environmental history was broadly defined, for the purposes of the conference, as including “all studies of the relationship between human societies and the natural environment through time” (4). Four subareas were covered: (i) changing values and attitudes toward nature and their significance; (ii) the effects of human economic activity on the natural environment and vice versa; (iii) the history of conservation and environmentalist movements, and (iv) the role of professionals such as scientists and engineers in transforming nature and their relationship to environmental thought and movements.

• Item Type: Monograph
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: climate change; conservation; ecology; imperialism; indigenous people; industrialization; policies science; urbanization
• Research Centers: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC)
• Subjects: 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences and geology; 900 History and geography > 900 Geschichte
• ISBN: 0-8191-4376-6
• Number of Pages: 706
• Place of Publication: Lanham
• Language: English

References

Coates, Peter. Reviewed work(s): Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective by Kendall E. Bailes. The Public Historian 8: 1 (Winter, 1986): 93-95, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3377085