Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
Stefan Skrimshire considers the ethical question of how to communicate with future human societies in terms of long-term disposal of radioactive fuel. He proposes that the confessional form (as propagated by Saint Augustine and critiqued by Derrida) may become increasingly pertinent to activists, artists, and faith communities making sense of humanity’s ethical commitments in deep time.