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Indigenous Knowledge
This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.
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Changing Deserts: Integrating People and Their Environment
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.
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Contested Mountains: Nature, Development and Environment in the Cairngorms Region of Scotland, 1880–1980
This contribution to the literature on the recent environmental history of Britain is an exhaustively detailed study of the interplay between tourism, conservation, and landownership in one of the most popular tourist areas in Scotland.
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The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester
Stephen Mosley examines three aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Manchester’s smoke situation: its magnitude and impact on the town, the rhetoric and culture of smoke, and the (unsuccessful) campaigns to control it.
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Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History
Excerpt from the anthology Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History.
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The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps
Excerpt from The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps.
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Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History
Excerpt from Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History.
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Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century
Excerpt from Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century.
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The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934
Excerpt from The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934.
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The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies
Drawing on recent research results from various disciplines, including history, sociology, law and political sciences, this volume addresses the methodological challenge of a European perspective on a transnational subject.