Environmental history
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Environmental history. / Pawson, Eric; Christensen, Andreas Aagaard.
The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. ed. / Douglas Richardson; Noel Castree; Michael F. Goodchild; Audrey L. Kobayashi; Weidong Liu; Richard Marston. Wiley, 2017. p. 1-14.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopedia chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - ENCYC
T1 - Environmental history
AU - Pawson, Eric
AU - Christensen, Andreas Aagaard
PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - Environmental history is an interdisciplinary pursuit that has developed as a form of conscience to counter an increasingly powerful, forward-looking liberal theory of the environment. It deals with the relations between environmental ideas and materialities, from the work of the geographers George Perkins Marsh, Carl Sauer, and Clarence Glacken, to more recent global-scale assessments of the impact of the “great acceleration” since 1950. Today’s “runaway world” paradoxically embraces risk management in an attempt to determine its own future whilst generating a whole new category of “manufactured risks”. These are exposed by environmental history’s focus on long-run analysis and its narrative form that identifies the stories that we tell ourselves about nature. How a better understanding of past environmental transformations helps to analyse society and agency, and what this can mean for solutions and policies, is the agenda for an engaged environmental history from now on.
AB - Environmental history is an interdisciplinary pursuit that has developed as a form of conscience to counter an increasingly powerful, forward-looking liberal theory of the environment. It deals with the relations between environmental ideas and materialities, from the work of the geographers George Perkins Marsh, Carl Sauer, and Clarence Glacken, to more recent global-scale assessments of the impact of the “great acceleration” since 1950. Today’s “runaway world” paradoxically embraces risk management in an attempt to determine its own future whilst generating a whole new category of “manufactured risks”. These are exposed by environmental history’s focus on long-run analysis and its narrative form that identifies the stories that we tell ourselves about nature. How a better understanding of past environmental transformations helps to analyse society and agency, and what this can mean for solutions and policies, is the agenda for an engaged environmental history from now on.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Environmental history
KW - History
KW - Global change
KW - Global History
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Landscape history
KW - Environmental transformation
KW - Environmental management
KW - Environment
KW - Human-environment timelines
KW - Human-environment interaction
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Modernity
KW - Modernization
KW - Globalization
KW - Capitalism
KW - Privatization
KW - Growth
KW - Acceleration
U2 - 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0899
DO - 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0899
M3 - Encyclopedia chapter
SN - 978-0-470-65963-2
SP - 1
EP - 14
BT - The International Encyclopedia of Geography
A2 - Richardson, Douglas
A2 - Castree, Noel
A2 - Goodchild, Michael F.
A2 - Kobayashi, Audrey L.
A2 - Liu, Weidong
A2 - Marston, Richard
PB - Wiley
ER -
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