The Past and Present of Environmental History

Crosby, Alfred W.

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“…18 The field received major stimuli with the growing awareness since the 1960s and 1970s of the impact of industrial pollution and nuclear waste. 19 The historical world witnessed a major institutionalization with the establishment of the American Society for Environmental History in 1975, followed by the publication of a journal, the Environmental Review (renamed Environmental History in the 1990s). colonialism/imperialism and ecological decline has received increased attention in the past two decades.…”

Section: G L O B a L I Z At I O N A N D G L O B A L H I S T O Rymentioning

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Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History: An Introduction

Boomgaard¹,

Hart²

2010

Int Rev of Soc His

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Section: G L O B a L I Z At I O N A N D G L O B A L H I S T O Rymentioning

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Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History: An Introduction

Boomgaard¹,

Hart²

2010

Int Rev of Soc His

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“…Perhaps the origin of this situation can be traced to the school itself. While historians like Worster (1988), Crosby (1995) and Guha (1993) 1 recognize an affi liation between the Annales School and environmental history to the point where Guha makes Marc Bloch a model for ecological history, for Geneviève Massard this is not as clear and is ultimately a misunderstanding.…”

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The Annales School and the Environmental History of Latin America

Villaseñor

2017

Hist. caribe

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There are different influences in Environmental Latin-American History. From the historical demography to anthropology, this discipline has been benefit from Cook and Borah’s contributions to Carl Sauer’s. In this article, my contribution consists in broading the spectrum towards the European influence and particularly to the so-called Annales School. While it is true that this movement had a strong influence in Latin-American History, in contrast, in Environment Historians, such influence has not been comparable to quantity history or the history of prices. My purpose is to analyze the roots of this influence in Latin America, their scope and limits.

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“…However, pre European impact conditions are unknown, as is the extent of European impacts. To set effective rehabilitation goals within regional management strategies it is important to determine the "natural" state of the Upper South East environment and the causes, directions and extent of its deterioration (Doe, 1983;Wasson and Clark, 1985;Clark, 1990;Dovers and Dargavel, 1991;Creagh, 1993;Crosby, 1995;Powell, 1996). …”

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Diatoms as indicators of wetland salinity in the Upper South East of South Australia

Taffs

2001

The Holocene

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Wetland degradation in the Upper South East of South Australia is an urgent management concern. Scant recent environmental data is available for the region and long-term monitoring data is lacking. Usually a palaeoecological analysis is able to reveal environmental change in the medium-to long-term past. However, the region is not conducive to palaeoecological investigation due to a fluctuating upper groundwater aquifer and alkaline soils whiclh have destroyed most microfossils. It was found that the diatom assemblage was preserved in the wetlands of the region for the period of European settlement. Analysis of the diatom assemblage enabled production of an inferred salinity curve. In combination with a small amount of historical information that was available, the salinity trend for the wetlands, for the period of European agricultural activities, was identified. It was found that, while groundwater salinity has been increasing, the wetland areas have experienced a freshening of surface water. This is due to an increase of throughflow of surface water, a result of constructed drainage systems flushing salts from the wetlands. Despite the freshening of wetlands they continue to degrade due to the changed hydrology, an impact of the drainage structures.

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The Past and Present of Environmental History

Cited by 78 publications

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Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History: An Introduction

Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History: An Introduction

The Annales School and the Environmental History of Latin America

Diatoms as indicators of wetland salinity in the Upper South East of South Australia

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