Encountering the past in nature : essays in environmental history /
"A deeper understanding of contemporary environmental problems requires us to know where we come from, and the study of environmental history will help us in that quest. Environmental history, in short, may be described as an attempt to study the interaction between humans and nature in the pas...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2001.
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
| Series: | Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Environmental history: a new discipline with long traditions / Timo Myllyntaus and Mikko Saikku
- Modernization and the concept of nature: on the reproduction of environmental stereotypes / Ari Aukusti Lehtinen
- Life in the borderland forests: the takeover of nature and its social organization in North Karelia / Ismo Björn
- The vanishing and reappearing tropical forest: forest management and land use in Thailand / Olavi Luukkanen
- "Home in the big forest": decline of the ivory-billed woodpecker and its habitat in the United States / Mikko Saikku
- Environment in explaining history: restoring humans as part of nature / Timo Myllyntaus.
