Mapping a New History of the Ecological Turn: The Circulation of Environmental Knowledge in Sweden 1967

Heidenblad, David Larsson

doi:10.3197/096734018x1513794959193

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“…Similar techniques for analysing empirical material have been used elsewhere to map out the emergence of environment or climate knowledge within a specific social context (e.g. de Freitas and Dias, 2017, Heidenblad, 2018). Counting set words and phrases within the documents may have been of limited value given that only a small number of documents were available each year.…”

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What is the role of epistemic communities in shaping local environmental policy? Managing environmental change through planning and greenspace in Fukuoka City, Japan

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Highlights Assess role of techno-scientific expertise in governing urban environmental change. Evaluate evidence-driven built environment and greenspace policy in Fukuoka. Epistemic community shapes Fukuoka’s built environment and greenspace policy. Local history gives favourable context for environmental science in public interest. Findings nuance understanding of how epistemic communities work at urban scale.

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What is the role of epistemic communities in shaping local environmental policy? Managing environmental change through planning and greenspace in Fukuoka City, Japan

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“…However, even though expanding, the subsistence crisis accelerated the profound change that African Christianity was undergoing. The 'Ethiopian' Church, a movement for an independent African Christian community, widened its influence, new churches were founded, and the congregations of some mission societies sought increasing independence (Chidester 1992;Houle 2011;Klein et al 2018). Revival movements swept through Protestant communities in Natal and Transvaal (Dreier 2005;Houle 2011).…”

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The role of drought in agrarian crisis and social change: the famine of the 1890s in south-eastern Africa

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During the second half of the 1890s, southeastern Africa was hit by a drought-driven ecological crisis. Using records previously unexploited for climate and climate impact research, and which cover the area from modern-day Zimbabwe and Botswana to eastern South Africa, this study explores the complexity of this crisis through an analysis of the spatial extent, duration and severity of the regional drought, and its associated socioeconomic and environmental repercussions. This interdisciplinary study stands at the nexus of environmental, economic and social history. The records used include (i) British administrative sources, (ii) reports and letters by members of various Protestant missionary societies from diverse environments across the study area, together with (iii) local newspapers. Analysis of these materials reveals that generally the period was marked by a sequence of considerably delayed rainy seasons, which in turn negatively impacted upon the rainfed agriculture. Below average levels of summer rainfall also adversely affected the development of young crops. The drought was more severe and continuous in the interior of the region than towards the Indian Ocean coast. The prolonged dry conditions were accompanied by, and likely exacerbated, locust outbreaks and the spread of cattle plague (Rinderpest). We demonstrate in this paper that drought, as the original driver of the crisis, triggered a cascade of responses from harvest failure to famine and ultimately led to profound socioeconomic change.

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Mapping a New History of the Ecological Turn: The Circulation of Environmental Knowledge in Sweden 1967

Cited by 2 publications

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What is the role of epistemic communities in shaping local environmental policy? Managing environmental change through planning and greenspace in Fukuoka City, Japan

What is the role of epistemic communities in shaping local environmental policy? Managing environmental change through planning and greenspace in Fukuoka City, Japan

The role of drought in agrarian crisis and social change: the famine of the 1890s in south-eastern Africa

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