Der Versperrte Wald
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Der Versperrte Wald
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Author : Bernd-Stefan Grewe
language : de
Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar
Release Date : 2004
Der Versperrte Wald written by Bernd-Stefan Grewe and has been published by Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Wie reagiert eine stark wachsende Gesellschaft auf Ressourcenknappheit? Im vorindustriellen Wirtschaftsleben spielten Waldressourcen eine Schlusselrolle: Holz war wichtigster Brennstoff, absolut unverzichtbar als Baumaterial und Werkstoff; ohne Holzkohle konnte kein Eisen verhuttet, ohne Pottasche kein Glas und keine Seife hergestellt werden. In der bayerischen Rheinpfalz spitzte sich die Lage im 19. Jahrhundert auf dramatische Weise zu. Ein unubersehbares Problem waren die massenhaften Forstdelikte, an denen sich statistisch jedes Jahr mehr als 21 % der Bevolkerung beteiligte. Gegen die Ubernutzung und drohende Zerstorung der Walder fuhrte die Forstverwaltung einen verzweifelten Kampf. Doch wie ernst war diese Bedrohung tatsachlich? Wie stark verbreitet waren Holznot und Dungermangel? Und wie stand es um den Zustand der Walder? Antworten auf diese umwelthistorischen Kernfragen bietet die Studie von Bernd-Stefan Grewe. Dabei wird auch die landwirtschaftliche Nutzung einbezogen und das in der Literatur verbreitete Bild der Waldwirtschaft in Frage gestellt.
Exploring Apocalyptica
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Author : Frank Uekötter
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2018-08-11
Exploring Apocalyptica written by Frank Uekötter and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Environmental alarmism has long been a political bellwether. Tell me what you think about the green apocalypse, and I'll tell you where you stand on the issues. But as the environmental heydays of the 1970s move into perspective, the time has come for a reassessment. Horror scenarios create a legacy whose effects have largely escaped attention. Based on case studies from four continents and the North Atlantic, Exploring Apocalyptica argues for a reevaluation of familiar clichés. It shows that environmentalists were less apocalyptic than commonly thought, and other groups were far more enthusiastic. It traces an interconnection with Cold War fears and economic depressions and demonstrates how alarmism faced limits in the Global South. It also suggests that past horror scenarios impose constraints on ongoing debates. At a time when climate change turns from a scenario into an experienced reality, this book charts paths for an age that may have already moved beyond the peak apocalypse.
Managing Northern Europe S Forests
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Author : K. Jan Oosthoek
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-02-19
Managing Northern Europe S Forests written by K. Jan Oosthoek and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with Science categories.
Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region’s woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters, the contributors to this volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present. Each explores the complex interrelationships of state-building, resource management, knowledge transfer, and trade over a period characterized by ongoing modernization and evolving environmental awareness.
The Invention Of Sustainability
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Author : Paul Warde
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-12
The Invention Of Sustainability written by Paul Warde and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with Business & Economics categories.
A groundbreaking study of how sustainability became a social and political problem, and how to think about it today.
The Turning Points Of Environmental History
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Author : Frank Uekötter
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2010-11-21
The Turning Points Of Environmental History written by Frank Uekötter and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-21 with History categories.
From the time when humans first learned to harness fire, cultivate crops, and domesticate livestock, they have altered their environment as a means of survival. In the modern era, however, natural resources have been devoured and defiled in the wake of a consumerism that goes beyond mere subsistence. In this volume, an international group of environmental historians documents the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history. John McNeill introduces the collection with an overarching account of the history of human environmental impact. Other contributors explore the use and abuse of the earth's land in the development of agriculture, commercial forestry, and in the battle against desertification in arid and semi-arid regions. Cities, which first appeared some 5,500 years ago, have posed their own unique environmental challenges, including dilemmas of solid waste disposal, sewerage, disease, pollution, and sustainable food and water supplies. The rise of nation-states brought environmental legislation, which often meant "selling off" natural resources through eminent domain. Perhaps the most damaging environmental event in history resulted from a "perfect storm" of effects: cheap fossil fuels (especially petroleum) and the rapid rise of personal incomes during the 1950s brought an exponential increase in energy consumption and unforseen levels of greenhouse gasses to the earth's atmosphere. By the 1970s, the deterioration of air, land, and water due to industrialization, population growth, and consumerism led to the birth of the environmental and ecological movements. Overall, the volume points to the ability and responsibility of humans to reverse the course of detrimental trends and to achieve environmental sustainability for existing and future populations.
Greening Europe
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Author : Anna-Katharina Wöbse
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-12-20
Greening Europe written by Anna-Katharina Wöbse and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-20 with History categories.
Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in these activities and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the subcontinent who set out to connect and network, and to exchange knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national horizons. Moving beyond human agency, the handbook also highlights the eminent role nature played in both "greening" Europe and making Europe a shared environment.
Wood
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Author : Joachim Radkau
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-12-23
Wood written by Joachim Radkau and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-23 with Political Science categories.
Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that the handling of wood is a basic element in the history of the human body. The fear of a future wood famine became a panic in the 18th century and sparked the beginnings of modern environmentalism. This book traces the cultural history of wood and offers a highly original account of the connection between the raw material and the human beings who benefit from it. Even more, it shows that wood can provide a key for a better understanding of history, of the pecularities as well as the varieties of cultures, of a co-evolution of nature and culture, and even of the rise and fall of great powers. Beginning with Stone Age hunters, it follows the twists and turns of the story through the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution to the global society of the twenty-first century, in which wood is undergoing a varied and unexpected renaissance. Radkau is sceptical of claims that wood is about to disappear, arguing that such claims are self-serving arguments promoted by interest groups to secure cheaper access to, and control over, wood resources. The whole forest and timber industry often strikes the outsider as a world unto itself, a hermetically sealed black box, but when we lift the lid on this box, as Radkau does here, we will be surprised by what we find within. Wide-ranging and accessible, this rich historical analysis of one of our most cherished natural resources will find a wide readership.
An Environmental History Of The Early Modern Period
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Author : Martin Knoll
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2014
An Environmental History Of The Early Modern Period written by Martin Knoll and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
The environmental history of early modern times is a seminal and lively field of historical research. This volume offers ten concise essays that provide an overview of current research debates on a broad span of topics, such as historical climatology and climate reconstruction, coping with disaster, land use and agricultural knowledge, forest history, urbanization, the perceptions of (alpine) nature, and societal dealings with water and rivers. Taken together, the contributions establish early modern studies as a promising laboratory for new avenues in environmental history. (Series: Austria: Research and Science - History / Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Geschichte - Vol. 10) [Subject: History, Environmental Studies]
Common Ground
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Author : Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2010-10-12
Common Ground written by Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-12 with History categories.
Today’s environmental problems—climate change, loss of biodiversity, polluted air, land, and water—all have their origins to a greater or lesser extent in how we have lived, played and worked. At a time when societies are confronted with the often dramatic consequences of past choices made in the fields of energy, technology, industry, agriculture, urbanisation and consumption, we need a history that casts more light on the ways in which unsustainable human-nature relationships came into being. This means forging stronger connections between social and environmental history. Common Ground opens up a dialogue between two sub-disciplines that to date have remained largely parallel endeavours, bringing together both established and younger scholars from both fields to explore how people’s everyday lives have connected to their environments—and with what effects. The book is organised in six sections: leisure and environment; nature and conservation; environmental conflicts; folk and scientific knowledge; environmental disasters; and energy, industry and urban infrastructure. By exploring the complex interplay between people’s day-to-day activities and ecological change, especially the values, beliefs and environmental experiences of ordinary men and women, we can better understand our past relationships with nature and perhaps make more informed planning and policy choices in the future.
The Vortex
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Author : Frank Uekötter
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2024-04-18
The Vortex written by Frank Uekötter and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-18 with Science categories.
Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises—climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes—means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uekötter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we’ve forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to industry to infrastructure, must be considered collectively if we are to stay afloat in what Uekötter describes as a vortex: a powerful metaphor for the flow of history, capturing the momentum and the many crosscurrents that swept people and environments along. His book invites us to look at environmental challenges from multiple perspectives, including all the twists and turns that have helped to create the mess we find ourselves in. Uekötter has written a world history for an age where things are falling apart: where we know what lies ahead and are equipped with the right tools—technological and otherwise—and plenty of experience to deal with environmental challenges, but somehow fail to get our affairs in order.