Research Catalog

Title

Environmental history : as if nature existed / edited by John R. McNeill, José Augusto Pádua, Mahesh Rangarajan.

Publication

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Additional Authors

• McNeill, John Robert.
• Pádua, José Augusto.
• Rangarajan, Mahesh.

Description

xii, 248 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This volume is situated at the crossroads of two new sub-disciplines - ecological economics and environmental history. The common concern of environmental historians is to ask when and how humans have reshaped the earth and in turn how nature has influenced human choices. At a time of epochal economic and ecological change, there are new insights and debates into how economic and ecological processes are inseparable. This volume fills a vacuum by addressing precisely these concerns." "Histories of environmental change and ecological economics are both cutting-edge disciplines, and this collection presents writings of some of the world's leading scholars on a range of topics. The conceptual essays explore issues of technology choice and energy options. Case studies from emerging economies such as Brazil, India, and China take a rare look at the affinity between ecology and economics, covering topics as diverse as human migration and mining, deforestation, and the gene-based agricultural revolution With contributions from the fields of sociology, history, ecology, and economics, in a language that is as lucid as the approach is sophisticated, this work is vital to anyone interested in a future that reconciles sustainability and equity. Scholars, teachers, and students of natural and social sciences, policymakers, and engaged citizens will find in it ideas that will both stimulate and inform."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Ecological economics and human well-being

Uniform Title

Ecological economics and human well-being.

Subject

• Human ecology > History
• Human ecology > Economic aspects > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Environmental history in general and in Asia / John R. McNeill -- From the frying pan into the fire : industrialization as a socio-ecological transition process / Fridolin Krausmann, Heinz Schandl and Marina Fischer-Kowalski -- Economic development, environment, and society : learning from Karl William Kapp (1910-1976) / Tommaso Luzzati -- Urban sanitation through the lens of Thomas Kuhn / Kumudini Abeysuriya, Cynthia Mitchell, and Juliet Willetts -- Environmental resources and China's historical development / Bao Maohong -- Of nature and nationalism : rethinking India's Nehru / Mahesh Rangarajan -- European colonialism and tropical forest destruction in Brazil : environment beyond economic history / José Augusto Pádua -- Globalization and tribal histories in eastern India / Vinita Damodaran -- From the green revolution to the gene revolution in India 1965-2008 / Asmita Bhardwaj -- Migration and ecological consequences : the case of Kerala, India / V.P. Raghavan -- Policy root in environmental degradation : the case of Chittagong Hill tracts of Bangladesh / Golam Rasul.

Call Number

JFD 11-527

ISBN

• 9780198064480
• 0198064489

LCCN

2010316942

OCLC

466361864

Title

Environmental history : as if nature existed / edited by John R. McNeill, José Augusto Pádua, Mahesh Rangarajan.

Imprint

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Series

Ecological economics and human well-being

Ecological economics and human well-being.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Publisher description

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

McNeill, John Robert.

Pádua, José Augusto.

Rangarajan, Mahesh.

Research Call Number

JFD 11-527