Environmental History in the Making: Volume I: Explaining

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Cognition and Natural Disasters: Stimulating an Environmental Historical Debate....Pages 3-15
Peopling Landscapes Through Art....Pages 17-30
The Power of Stories in the South Moresby Controversy: A Narrative Network Analysis....Pages 31-47
Exploring Environmental Literacy from a Historical Perspective: How Observations of the Arctic Natural Environment by a Nineteenth-Century Scholar Resulted in a Proposal for Establishing National Parks in the Nordic Countries....Pages 49-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Eco-fusion of Alien and Native as a New Conceptual Framework for Historical Ecology....Pages 73-90
Sustainable Development in Brundtland and Beyond: How (Not) to Reconcile Material Wealth, Environmental Limits and Just Distribution....Pages 91-108
Hidden Treasures: Challenging Traps of Historical Sources for Environmental History....Pages 109-122
Vegetation Analysis as a Source of Historic Information – The Case of Madeira Island....Pages 123-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Fire on the Hills: An Environmental History of Fires and Fire Policy in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems....Pages 145-169
Beyond Colonialism: Towards a New Environmental History of India....Pages 171-185
Where Many Rivers Meet: River Morphology and Transformation of Pre-modern River Economy in Mid-Ganga Basin, India....Pages 187-206
Notes from the Edges. Environmental History Writing in a Mediterranean “Periphery”....Pages 207-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Science, Society, and Knowledge of the Columbian Exchange: The Case of Cannabis ....Pages 225-241
History of the Colonization of Minas Gerais: An Environmental Approach....Pages 243-257
Locusts in Southern Settler Societies: Argentine and Australian Experience and Responses, 1880–1940....Pages 259-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Locust Invasions, Climatic Factors and Human Affairs in Modern Age Mediterranean....Pages 289-306
Wood for Burning: The Continuity of Woodland Management in Medieval and Early Modern France....Pages 307-320
Firewood and Charcoal Consumption in Madrid during Eighteenth Century and Its Effects on Forest Landscapes....Pages 321-340
Bambi in Sherwood Forest and the Great Deer Escape c. 1703–1711....Pages 341-357