Rethinking Environmental History

Download or read book Rethinking Environmental History written by Alf Hornborg and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and their environment, as well as the challenges of global sustainability.