Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change (Globalization and the Environment Series) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 075911028X ISBN 13 : 9780759110281

Editeur : AltaMira Press, 2007

Synopsis

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and worldsystems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan MartinezAlier have brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical, and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a longterm, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earthsystem with studies of the worldsystem, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and their environment, as well as the challenges of global sustainability.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and professor of human ecology at Lund University. J. R. McNeill is professor of history, director of graduate studies, and Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environmental and International Affairs at Georgetown University. Joan Martinez-Alier is professor of ecological economics in the Department of Economics and Economic History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AltaMira Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 075911028X
• ISBN 13: 9780759110281
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 426
• Éditeur: Hornborg Alf
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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