Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change (Globalization and the Environment)

Hornborg, Alf [Editor]; McNeill, J. R. [Editor]; Martinez-Alier, Joan [Editor]; Bunker, Stephen G. [Contributor]; Fisher, William H. [Contributor]; Gassón, Rafael A. [Contributor]; Giljum, Stefan [Contributor]; Håkansson, N Thomas [Contributor]; Heyman, Josiah [Contributor]; Hughes, J Donald [Contributor]; Jorgenson, Andrew K. [Contributor]; Marks, Robert B. [Contributor]; -Alier, Joan Martinez [Contributor]; Moore Assistant Professor Fernand Braudel Center Binghamton University author of Capitalism in the., Jason W. [Contributor]; Muradian, Roldan [Contributor]; Myrdal, Janken [Contributor]; Rice, James [Contributor]; Tainter, Joseph A. [Contributor]; Wallerstein, Immanuel [Contributor]; Weisz, Helga [Contributor]; Widgren, Mats [Contribut

ISBN 10: 075911028X / ISBN 13: 9780759110281

Published by AltaMira Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change (Globalization and the Environment)
• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075911028X
• ISBN 13: 9780759110281
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 20 ounces

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Synopsis

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and worldsystems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan MartinezAlier have brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical, and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a longterm, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earthsystem with studies of the worldsystem, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and their environment, as well as the challenges of global sustainability.

About the Author

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and professor of human ecology at Lund University. J. R. McNeill is professor of history, director of graduate studies, and Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environmental and International Affairs at Georgetown University. Joan Martinez-Alier is professor of ecological economics in the Department of Economics and Economic History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.