Environmental history in the making. Volume I, Explaining /

This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimar es, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Vaz, Estelita; Melo, Cristina Joanaz de; Pinto, Lígia M. Costa
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Environmental History, 6
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41085-2
Summary: This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimar es, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how our cultural background and examples of past territorial intervention can help to combat political and cultural limitations through the common language of environmental benefits without disguising harmful past human interventions. Considering that political ideologies such as socialism and capital
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XIV,357pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319410852
Index Number: QH301
CLC: X-09
Contents: Introduction: Estelita Vaz et al -- 1. Approaches (social bondage to maths, arts or socio-biology) -- 2. Proposing Concepts, sources, methodologies -- 3. Clarifying - Results interchange of psico-social with natural and analytical -- 4. Blurring all confronting data : new interpretations, old themes, different outcomes -- 5. Resetting data, new data, new stories - information upon classic subjects (crossing methodologies new results). .