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• Introductio
• n1. The Works and Arts of Men: Irrigation and Environmen
• t2. Waters Dedicated to Some Purposes: New Infrastructur
• e3. For the Beautification of the City: Christian Urban Refor
• m4. Divine Mercy and Help: Natural Disaster and the Rise of Rogation Procession
• s5. Seeking the Dew of His Grace: Drought
• s6. From Purification to Protection: Plagu
• e7. That for Which the King of Kings Sent the Flood? Floods and LocustsConclusion.
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How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religious difference? The Keys to Bread and Wine explores the answers to these questions in Valencia in the later Middle Ages. When Christians conquered the city in 1238, it was already one of the richest agricultural areas in the Mediterranean thanks to a network of irrigation canals constructed under Muslim rule. Despite this constructed environment, drought, flooding, plagues, and other natural disasters continued to confront civic leaders in the later medieval period. Abigail Agresta argues that the city's Christian rulers took a technocratic approach to environmental challenges in the fourteenth century but by the mid-fifteenth century relied increasingly on religious ritual, reflecting a dramatic transformation in the city's religious identity. Using the records of Valencia's municipal council, she traces the council's efforts to expand the region's infrastructure in response to natural disasters, while simultaneously rendering the landscape within the city walls more visibly Christian. This having been achieved, Valencia's leaders began by the mid-fifteenth century to privilege rogations and other ritual responses over infrastructure projects. But these appeals to divine aid were less about desperation than confidence in the city's Christianity. Reversing traditional narratives of technological progress, The Keys to Bread and Wine shows how religious concerns shaped the governance of the environment, with far-reaching implications for the environmental and religious history of medieval Iberia.
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Soderzhanie sbornika okhvatyvaet shirokiĭ krug problem, svi͡azannykh s avtoritetnym i vlii͡atelʹnym napravleniem v mirovoĭ istoriografii -- istorieĭ okruzhai͡ushcheĭ sredy (Environmental History). V rossiĭskom nauchnom soobshchestve za nim zakrepilsi͡a termin "Ėkologicheskai͡a istorii͡a". Publikuemye statʹi -- rezulʹtat intensivnogo obsuzhdenii͡a itogov i perspektiv razvitii͡a ėkologicheskoĭ istorii Rossii na nauchnykh konferent͡sii͡akh, provedennykh v Rossiĭskom gosudarstvennom gumanitarnom universitete v 2016-2018 gg. Tema ėkologicheskoĭ istorii obʺedinila universitetskikh prepodavateleĭ, sotrudnikov akademicheskikh nauchno-issledovatelʹskikh t͡sentrov iz Moskvy i rossiĭskikh regionov. V sbornike nashli otrazhenie metodologicheskie i terminologicheskie voprosy ėkologicheskoĭ istorii, analiz ee informat͡sionnykh resursov. Istochnikovedcheskie, istoriograficheskie i issledovatelʹskie temy po preimushchestvu otnosi͡atsi͡a k istorii Urala, Sibiri, Russkogo Severa, t͡sentralʹnykh oblasteĭ Rossii. Osobui͡u t͡sennostʹ predstavli͡ai͡ut obzory materialov po ėkologicheskoĭ istorii, khrani͡ashchiesi͡a v federalʹnykh i regionalʹnykh arkhivakh Rossii, v fondakh Arkhiva Rossiĭskoĭ akademii nauk i Gosudarstvennogo istoricheskogo muzei͡a. Dli͡a uchenykh i prepodavateleĭ gumanitarnykh, sot͡sialʹnykh, estestvenno-nauchnykh dist͡siplin, studentov, obuchai͡ushchikhsi͡a po programmam magistratury, i dli͡a vsekh, kto interesuetsi͡a voprosami istorii vzaimodeĭstvii͡a cheloveka i prirody vo vremeni i voprosami okhrany okruzhai͡ushcheĭ sredy
Содержание сборника охватывает широкий круг проблем, связанных с авторитетным и влиятельным направлением в мировой историографии -- историей окружающей среды (Environmental History). В российском научном сообществе за ним закрепился термин "Экологическая история". Публикуемые статьи -- результат интенсивного обсуждения итогов и перспектив развития экологической истории России на научных конференциях, проведенных в Российском государственном гуманитарном университете в 2016-2018 гг. Тема экологической истории объединила университетских преподавателей, сотрудников академических научно-исследовательских центров из Москвы и российских регионов. В сборнике нашли отражение методологические и терминологические вопросы экологической истории, анализ ее информационных ресурсов. Источниковедческие, историографические и исследовательские темы по преимуществу относятся к истории Урала, Сибири, Русского Севера, центральных областей России. Особую ценность представляют обзоры материалов по экологической истории, хранящиеся в федеральных и региональных архивах России, в фондах Архива Российской академии наук и Государственного исторического музея. Для ученых и преподавателей гуманитарных, социальных, естественно-научных дисциплин, студентов, обучающихся по программам магистратуры, и для всех, кто интересуется вопросами истории взаимодействия человека и природы во времени и вопросами охраны окружающей среды.
The content of the collection covers a wide range of issues associated with an authoritative and influential trend in the world historiography -- Environmental History. In the Russian scientific community, the term "Ecological history" took root behind it. The articles published here for the most part arise from an intensive discussion of the results and prospects for the development of Russia's Environmental history at scientific conferences held at the Russian State University for the Humanities in 2016-2018. Themes of Ecological history united university professors, employees of academic research centers from Moscow and Russian regions. The collection reflects the methodological and terminological issues of Environmental history, the analysis of its information resources. Source studies, historiography and research topics primarily relate to the history of the Urals, Siberia, the Russian North, and the central regions of Russia. The particular value is attributed to reviews of materials on Environmental history, kept in the federal and regional archives of Russia, in the funds of the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Historical Museum

• Blindsided by life
• Urban Galapagos
• The inadvertent ark
• The last escape
• The human niche
• The intelligence of crows
• Embracing diversity to balance risk
• The law of inseparability
• Humpty Dumpty and the robotic sex bees
• Living with evolution
• Not the end of nature
• Conclusion: No longer among the living

"Biologist Rob Dunn grew up listening to stories of the Mississippi River, how it flooded his grandfather's town of Greenville, swallowing up the townsfolk and leaving behind a muddy wasteland. Years later, Dunn discovered the cause of the great deluge. The Army Corps of Engineers had tried to straighten the river, cutting off its meandering oxbows in order to allow for the easy passage of boats. They had tried to bend nature to their own design. But as Dunn argues in A Natural History of the Future, nature has its own set of rules, and no amount of human tampering can rewrite them. We might think that we can meet the challenges of global warming by manipulating nature with our technology--and even that we can live without non-human life--but as Dunn shows, we can't. We not only rely on the natural world for food, but we need its microbes to carry out the most basic bodily functions. The rules of life, Dunn explains, are all-encompassing, governing where species are likely to abound, the inevitable arms race between humans and our predators, and even our own ignorance about nature. Collectively, these rules shed light on the future of life and our destiny, revealing where our visions for cities, roads, schools, and society at large run afoul of nature's inescapable dictates. The future we have been planning is one in which we try to hold back life. As Dunn argues, we cannot: Surviving or reversing climate change and other ecological catastrophes isn't just a question of reducing our carbon footprint with clean technologies or protecting ecosystems. It's not about "fixes." It's about working with nature, and so learning to live by the rules that entails. Drawing on topics as diverse as how microbes acquired during birth affect our health and what species might inhabit the crust of the Earth, Dunn reveals the surprising complexities of the natural world and the interconnectedness of life itself. Along the way, he offers plenty of simple lessons in how we can, individually and collectively, through environmental policy, make the lifestyle changes necessary to ensure our own species' survival. At once hopeful and practical, A Natural History of the Future offers a vision of our future in which humans and the natural world coexist symbiotically"-- Provided by publisher

This is a book about ecology, environment, nature, and the misleading information that plagues the discussions of these topics. It is easy-to-read, fun, and doesn't have to be read all at once; you can pick it up for five or ten minutes, get one idea out of it, put it down, and come back for other five or ten minutes some other time. It's light reading about very difficult subjects, such as: is trying to save every single species necessarily a good thing? Is life really all that fragile? Is undisturbed nature the normal state of things? and twenty-three more insightful essays.
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• Foreword Mike Hulme Introduction Sara Miglietti and John Morgan 1.Climate, travel and colonialism in the early modern world - Rebecca Earle
• 2. Jean Bodin and the idea of anachorism Richard Spavin
• 3. Marshes as microclimate: governing with the environment in early modern France Raphael Morera
• 4. Mastering north-east England's "River of Tine": efforts to manage a rvier's flow, functions and form 1529-c.1800 Leona Skelton
• 5. "Take plow and spade, build and plant and make the waste land fruitful": Gerrard Winstanley and the importance of labour Ashley Dodsworth
• 6. Winter and discontent in early modern England - William Cavert
• 7. "A considerable change of climate": glacial retreat and British policy in the early-nineteenth-century Arctic - Anya Zilberstein 8."Vast factories of febrile poison": wetlands, drainage, and the fate of American climates, 1750-1850 - Anthony Carlson.
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Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This discourse eventually promoted the reconsideration of long-held beliefs about the role of climate in upholding the social order, driving economies and affecting public health. Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World explores the relationship between cultural perceptions of the environment and practical attempts at environmental regulation and change between 1500 and 1800. Taking a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental governance, this edited collection combines an interpretative perspective with new insights into a period largely unfamiliar to environmental historians. Using a rich and multifaceted narrative, this book offers an understanding as to how efforts to enhance productive aspects of the environment were both led by and contributed to new conceptualisations of the role of 'nature' in human society. This book offers a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental history and will be of special interest to environmental, cultural and intellectual historians, as well as anyone with an interest in the culture and politics of environmental governance.
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• De la place de l'homme dans la nature
• Dieu ne transforme pas les arbres en vaches !
• L'âge des mythes
• Le temps des saints (Ve-Xe siècle)
• Rendre Nature meilleure (XIe-XIIIe siècle)
• Le temps des malheurs (XIVe-XVe siècle)
• La fée Mélusine et le mont inaccessible
• La résistible christianisation du monde sauvage
• Mirabilia, forces de la nature et génies du terroir
• 1492, le désenchantement du monde
• D'Aristote à Dürer
• Le retour du Stagirite
• Scientia experimentalis
• Tout le savoir du monde
• Un nouveau regard
• Sous la loi de Malthus ?
• Déterminisme ou libre arbitre ?
• La loi d'airain des sociétés anciennes
• Une crise malthusienne... ou pas
• Bactéries et virus, les plus vieux ennemis de l'homme
• "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan ?"
• Le climat a une histoire : sources écrites et archives naturelles
• Chauds et froids médiévaux
• Aux risques du temps
• S'adapter et subir
• Aléas et catastrophes
• Résistance et résilience
• Mettre les ressources de la nature au service de la culture
• Se nourrir du soleil
• Tout est affaire d'énergie
• Une civilisation du blé
• Jardin d'Éden et Terre promise
• L'élevage malgré tout
• Façonner la matière
• Se chauffer, construire, fabriquer
• Des entrailles de la terre
• La fabrique des droits sur la nature
• Ager, silva, saltus
• Mainmise sur la nature
• L'exploitation paysanne : droits sur la terre ou sur la nature ?
• Naissance des communs
• Le gibier, ressource collective ?
• Le défi de Prométhée
• Anthropisation
• Les "trois cents glorieuses"
• Naissance des campagnes
• L'eau : amie ou ennemie ?
• Les prémices d'une crise écologique ?
• Prométhée et le moulin
• Multiplier les pains, transformer l'eau en vin
• Tuer le veau gras, multiplier les poissons
• Maîtriser les éléments
• Prise de conscience d'un monde fini ?
• Pollutions humaines, animales et chimiques
• Préserver les ressources halieutiques et forestières.

"Pour qui s'intéresse à la société médiévale, la question écologique peut sembler secondaire au regard du rapport à Dieu, des formes de domination ou de l'organisation politique. Les sciences paléo-environnementales, l'archéologie moderne et les textes de l'époque suggèrent pourtant que leurs rapports à la nature sont bien l'une des grandes questions que se posent les hommes du Moyen Âge. Remettant en cause le cliché d'une période de stagnation, livrée aux calamités naturelles, l'auteur montre que ces rapports n'ont cessé d'évoluer. L'évêque mérovingien, le serf d'un domaine carolingien, l'hôte d'un village neuf du xii" siècle, le théologien du mile siècle, ou le maître de forge du xv" siècle ne partagent ni la même vision ni les mêmes attentes vis-à-vis de la nature. Après l'an mille cependant, la croissance démographique, l'amélioration des moyens techniques et la redécouverte de la science grecque ont peu à peu fait basculer l'Occident dans un nouveau paradigme. La maîtrise du monde sensible devient un but collectif légitime et réalisable. La nature est alors fortement mise à contribution. Ainsi, si l'ouvrage couvre le millénaire médiéval, le coeur de l'enquête reste le grand développement des XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles, moment crucial de l'"invention de la nature", gardienne de la Création et de ses lois, et d'une prise de conscience écologique qui n'en a pas encore le nom."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface to the Second Edition x Acknowledgments xiii
• 1 Human Agency and the State of the Earth 1 Introduction 1 Can One Conceive of Ecosystems Without Human Agents? 11 Human Agency: Individuals Making a Difference 14 Overwhelming Evidence for Concern with the Condition of the Earth System 17 Looking Back and Looking Forward 26 Additional Resources 27 References 28
• 2 A Reminder: How Things Were
• 33 The Study of Human Ecological Relations 33 The Contemporary Study of Environmental Issues: The Rise of Cross ]Disciplinary Team ]Based Approaches 39 The Evolution of Human Environment Interactions 47 Hunter ]Gatherers: Setting Our Preferences 52 How Did We Decide to Become Farmers? 56 Herding and Farming: An Uneasy Relationship 59 More Food for the Masses 61 Additional Resources 64 References 64
• 3 The Great Forgetting 75 Earth Transformations in Prehistory 75 The Archeology of Environmental Change 83 The Urban Industrial Revolution and the Unleashing of Prometheus 86 The Contemporary Situation: Human ]Dominated Ecosystems 89 Additional Resources 91 References 92
• 4 The Web of Life: Are We In It? 96 The Web of Life and Trophic Relations: Thinking Ecologically 96 Ecosystem Productivity and Net Primary Production 103 Land Use and Long ]Term Disturbance 105 Additional Resources 117 References 117
• 5 What Makes People Do That? 122 Learning, Adaptation, and Information 122 Mitigation and the Cautionary Principle 135 Transforming the Face of the Earth: Making Better Decisions 136 Additional Resources 139 References 140
• 6 Population and Environment 145 Theories about Population 146 The Demographic Transition 147 Aging and International Flows of Labor 150 Addressing the Needs of 10 Billion People 153 Changing the Population and Environment Nexus 159 Additional Resources 162 References 163
• 7 Rebuilding Communities and Institutions 166 Community in Human Evolution 166 What is Sacred in Human Evolution? 169 Tragedies of the Commons 172 Institutions and Self ]Organization 176 Bioregionalism, Deep Ecology, and Embedding People in Nature 180 Additional Resources 182 References 183
• 8 Can We Learn When We Have Enough? 188 Material Boys and Material Girls 188 Patterns of Consumption in Developed Countries 189 Patterns of Consumption in Developing Countries 196 A Feeding Frenzy and a Crisis in Public Health 200 Burning Fossil Fuels instead of Calories 202 Do We Have Enough Material Goods Now? 205 Additional Resources 207 References 208
• 9 Quality of Life: When Less Is More 210 Resource Abundance versus Resource Scarcity 210 When Less is More 220 The Scale of the Problem and the Scale of the Solution 229 Restoring Our Balance: Valuing Community and Trust 233 Are We Happier When We Have More? 238 References 241 Index 244.
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Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world. * Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studies * Addresses new issues of importance, including climate change, population change, the rise of the slow food and farm-to-table movements, and consumer-driven shifts in sustainability * Explains key theoretical issues in the field, as well as the most important research, at a level appropriate for readers coming to the topic for the first time * Discusses the challenges in ensuring a livable future for generations to come and explores solutions for correcting the damage already done to the environment * Offers a powerful, hopeful future vision for improved relations between humans and nature that embraces the idea of community needs rather than consumption wants, and the importance of building trust as a foundation for a sustainable future.
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• Part I. Rethinking protected areas and indigenous peoples. 1. Indigenous peoples, biocultural diversity, and protected areas / Stan Stevens ; 2. A new protected area paradigm / Stan Stevens ; 3. Community-oriented protected areas for indigenous peoples and local communities : indigenous protected areas in Australia / Marcia Langton, Lisa Palmer, and Zane Ma Rhea ; 4. A tale of three parks : Tlingit conservation, representation, and repatriation in southeastern Alaska's national parks / Thomas F. Thornton
• Part II. Complexity and critiques. 5. National parks in the Canadian North : comanagement or colonialism revisited? / John Sandlos ; 6. State governmentality or indigenous sovereignty? Protected area comanagement in the Ashaninka Communal Reserve in Peru / Emily Caruso ; 7. Green neoliberal space : the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor / Mary Finley-Brook ; 8. "Bargaining with patriarchy" : Miskito struggles over family land in the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve / Sharlene Mollett
• Part III. Moving forward : opportunities, constraints and negotiations. 9. Mutual gains and distributive ideologies in South Africa : theorizing negotiations between communities and protected areas / Derick A. Fay ; 10. Conservation and Maya autonomy in Guatemala's western highlands : the case of Totonicapán / Brian W. Conz ; 11. Indigenous peoples' and community conserved terrotories and areas in the high Himalaya : recognition and rights in Nepal's national parks / Stan Stevens ; 12. Advancing the new paradigm : implementation, challenges, and potential / Stan Stevens.

A vast number of national parks and protected areas throughout the world have been established in the customary territories of Indigenous peoples. In many cases these conservation areas have displaced Indigenous peoples, undermining their cultures, livelihoods, and self-governance, while squandering opportunities to benefit from their knowledge, values, and practices. This book makes the case for a paradigm shift in conservation from exclusionary, uninhabited national parks and wilderness areas to new kinds of protected areas that recognize Indigenous peoples' conservation contributions and rights. It documents the beginnings of such a paradigm shift and issues a clarion call for transforming conservation in ways that could enhance the effectiveness of protected areas and benefit Indigenous peoples in and near tens of thousands of protected areas worldwide.Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas integrates wide-ranging, multidisciplinary intellectual perspectives with detailed analyses of new kinds of protected areas in diverse parts of the world. Eleven geographers and anthropologists contribute nine substantive fieldwork-based case studies. Their contributions offer insights into experience with new conservation approaches in an array of countries, including Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Peru, South Africa, and the United States.This book breaks new ground with its in-depth exploration of changes in conservation policies and practices-and their profound ramifications for Indigenous peoples, protected areas, and social reconciliation.
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• Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Classification of Canada's Environments (c. 17th to Early 20th Centuries) 2 Natural Resources, Economic Growth, and the Need for Conservation (c. 19th and 20th
• Centuries)
• 3 Romanticism and the Preservation of Nature (c. 19th and 20th Centuries) 4 Environmentalism (c.1950s to 2000s) 5 Aboriginal Canadians and Natural Resources: An Overview Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index.
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Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history.
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