This article describes select examples of waste management from the Roman Empire (27 BCE to 365 CE). Classical written sources and anthropological and archeological literature were studied. The central theme of this paper is ancient man’s relationship with waste and his responses to pollution.
This article describes examples of material and waste management with a focus on select Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic sites. It examines the structuring of space and landscape from the perspective of waste management as a certain need of natural human behavior. The article touches on the concept of purity and on defining the creation of waste.
The study presents a survey conducted at the set of teachers (N=165) participating in the network for instructional support in environmental education M.R.K.R.V. and Mrkvička. The survey was focused on the meaning of the centers for the respondents and the reasons for choosing some of the offered services. The results suggest that teachers interpret the role of the environmental education centers as irreplaceable and that they highly appreciate the level of the offered services. They use mainly the short educational programs, they use their services repeatedly in a year, and their choice is based by their previous good experience, its cost, and distance. The study also discusses some of the issues associated with these results.
This article describes examples of waste management systems from archaeological sites in Europe and the Middle East. These examples are then contextualized in the broader perspectives of environmental history. We can confidently claim that the natural resource use of societies predating the Lower Palaeolithic was in equilibrium with the environment. In sharp contrast stand communities from the Upper Palaeolithic and onwards, when agriculture appeared and provided opportunities for what seemed like unlimited expansion.
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