"Editorial Introduction" to Environment and History 7, no. 2, "Beyond Local, Natural Ecosystems" special issue (May, 2001)

van Dam, Petra J. E. M. “Editorial Introduction” to Environment and History 7, no. 2, “Beyond Local, Natural Ecosystems” special issue (May, 2001): 127–30. doi:10.3197/096734001129342423. With this issue of Environment and History, van Dam contributes to the thesis that the expansion of trade systems and the emergence of large-scale human intervention in (formerly) natural ecosystems is a continuous, interactive process with a long history, long before the Industrial Revolution or the discovery of the New Worlds. This theme, the influence of long-distance trade on natural, local ecosystems, was the topic of a workshop van Dam organised in Amsterdam at the Free University on 8 April 1999. She presents some strands of the discussion of that day in this introduction and thanks the authors for their kind and attentive cooperation. All rights reserved. © 2001 The White Horse Press