Historische Humanökologie: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Menschen und Ihrer Umwelt

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Winiwarter, Verena, and Harald Wilfing, eds. Historische Humanökologie: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Menschen und Ihrer Umwelt [Historical human ecology: Interdisciplinary approaches to humans and their environment]. Víenna: Facultas University Press, 2002. This book collects the writings of prominent Austrian and German scholars on interdisciplinary approaches to humans and their environment. Eight critical introductions followed by lists of selected readings develop concepts and relate the authors’ personal experience with inter- and transdisciplinary research. Essays engage topics such as the contributions and the shortcomings of western anthropology, ethnology, and prehistory regarding the interrelations between humankind and the environment; geographical approaches to the central problem of the human-environment relation in spatial and temporal respects; the roots and developments of scientific approaches called “human ecology” in the twentieth century; approaches to nature and culture in environmental psychology; and a critical review of current sociological debates about risk assessment and management, uncertainty, and catastrophes in light of a vast treasure of human strategies and experience documented in world history. (Text adapted from an H-Net review by Ulrich Koppitz.)