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"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in environmental terms. Surroundings is the first full history of the concept - one that shows how it became compelling to particular communities of people. Today we confront the legacies of this long history, which the author argues has made it difficult to speak coherently and persuasively about questions of environmental justice and equity. The history recounted in Surrounded can help us better understand why we find ourselves in this predicament and what we might do about it. For it uncovers not only the diversity of forms that environmentalism has taken in the past but how paying attention them can open our eyes to the promising new varieties of environmentalism that are emerging today"--

"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in environmental terms. Surroundings is the first full history of the concept - one that shows how it became compelling to particular communities of people. Today we confront the legacies of this long history, which the author argues has made it difficult to speak coherently and persuasively about questions of environmental justice and equity. The history recounted in Surrounded can help us better understand why we find ourselves in this predicament and what we might do about it. For it uncovers not only the diversity of forms that environmentalism has taken in the past but how paying attention them can open our eyes to the promising new varieties of environmentalism that are emerging today."--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Past historic -- 1. Humans being -- 2. Playing and learning in the Mesolithic -- 3. Earth Mother - Mother Earth -- 4. In the beginning -- 5. Virgil's Georgics -- 6. How the Greenland Norse chose -- 7. Science and the ecological imagination -- 8. Francis Bacon and the interrogation of nature -- 9. Descartes, the world and the method -- 10. Rousseau wrote Emile -- Pestalozzi made it real -- 11. The 18th-century (sustainable) development goals -- 12. The English Romantic poets -- 13. Public education and the Industrial Revolution -- 14. Alexander von Humboldt -- 15. John Clare's enclosure -- 16. Marx in nature -- 17. Thoreau and Walden -- 18. The significance of John Muir -- 19. Friluftsliv -- 20. Patrick Geddes -- 21. John Dewey and the ecology oflearning -- 22. Blut und Boden -- 23. This land is your land … -- Part II: Present imperfect -- 24. Rachel Carson's silence -- 25. The road to Tbilisi -- 26. Gaia -- 27. Forest school origins -- 28. The early UN conferences -- 29. Prepositions and the environment -- 30. How deep is your ecology? -- 31. Environmentally educated teachers -- 32. Are significant life experiences always significant? -- 33. Faith, hope, charity and the ecological crisis -- 34. The Earth Charter -- 35. The behaviour of models -- 36. The coming of ESD -- 37. Green still does not always mean go -- 38. The beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? -- 39. In competence we trust -- 40. Environmental learning -- 41. Extinction? Rebellion? -- Part III: Future possible -- 42. Behind the cenes -- 43. Being human -- Appendix 1: A brief history of environment and learning in England -- Appendix 2: A brief history of environment and learning in the USA.

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia. This volume includes four chapters on energy and the environment of Japan, China, and Britain, and four short book reviews on recent academic works published in Japanese and English. The four chapters cover the following topics: the relationship between deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in a district of Nagano Prefecture (central Japan) from the 1870s to the 1900s and the subsequent shift from firewood to coal; the importance of timber supplies for the development of industry as illustrated by a case study on the supply of timber for use as rail sleepers in the Japanese national railway network during the prewar period; a methodological survey of the history of ecology and the environment in China; and an analysis of the British Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act of 1821 as a measure that incorporated the interests of politicians, landlords, and industrialists.

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia. This volume includes four chapters on energy and the environment of Japan, China and Britain and four short book reviews on recent academic works published in Japanese and English. The four chapters cover the following topics: the relationship between deforestation and the development of the silk reelin

"The idea of "the environment" was a planet-changing idea, making the planet visible in a wholly new way. The Environment: A History tells the story of the emergence of this idea. It is an intellectual and scientific history of the idea of the environment as a centripetal force in historical debates about climate change and the fate of the planet. According to the authors, our contemporary notion of the environment as a planet-wide web of interconnection and consequence of which the natural world is a part was forged by post-World War scientific experts. This book is about the imagination, the history, and the creativity of these experts, as well as their technical and diplomatic skills, and how well ordinary people have understood these and contributed to framing environmental concerns. The environment provided a concept that linked changes close to home to world-wide pressures. And in creating an object of imagination and measurement, it allowed new kinds of questions about nature and human responsibilities to be asked. Is the world sick? Is the Environment getting worse or better? In addition to creating a particular way of looking at our world it also created a movement and various kinds of knowledge and expertise"--

'A History of the Australian Environment Movement' by Drew Hutton and Libby Connors is reviewed.

This book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, the author traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China's environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China's traditional "heroic" storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. And also, he makes the compelling argument that all of humanity has a stake in China's environmental future