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Frontmatter --Contents --Urban-Environmental History as a Field of Research --Technosphere --Socio-Natural Sites --Materiality and Practice Theory --Path-Dependency and Trajectories --Risk and Resilience --Sustainability --Urban Metabolism --Material Flows and Circular Thinking --Urban Infrastructure and the Cultural Turn --Cities and Rivers --Urban Energy Consumption, Mobility and Environmental Legacies --Animals in Urban-Environmental History --Mobilities, Migration and Demography --Heritage, Renewal and the Construction of Identity in Urban History --Urban Heritage and Urban Development --Village-Small Town-Metropolis --European Periphery --Urban-Environmental Perspectives in History Teaching --Authors --Acknowledgements

For millions of years, the Arctic has been the world's most important "barometer of global change and amplifier of global warming." For twenty thousand years, the Arctic has been the homeland of modern human settlement, and it has played a central role in the interplay between global climate change and human migration throughout Eurasia and the Americas. Since the late fifteenth century, Arctic aboriginal peoples, lands, and seas have been thoroughly integrated into the international history of European trade, capitalism, and colonization; the territorial expansion of modern nation states; and the transnational strategic history since the outset of the Cold War, including the continued basing of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines throughout the Arctic region. Appreciation of this international history can provide lessons for contemporary policymakers to help mitigate grave risks to human life and biodiversity in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. For example, this Article calls for negotiations between the U.S., NATO, and the Russian Federation on the basis of Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev's 1987 proposal to transform the Arctic into "a zone of peace" and, specifically, to establish "a nuclear free-zone in northern Europe." In conclusion, this Article identifies how deeply embedded global systems of political economy and international relations continue to shape recent developments in the Arctic at this time of exacerbated climate change and resulting ecological crisis. Appreciation of the Arctic's environmental history can help decision-makers to more knowledgeably and effectively support indigenous self-determination, resource conservation, and environmental stewardship throughout the circumpolar bioregion.

In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. "Concepts of Urban-Environmental History" aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues which have shaped recent debates in the field. They address unresolved questions and future challenges. As a handbook, the collection offers a comprehensive overview for researchers and students, both from a historical and an interdisciplinary background

This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together the best of T.C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history and offers them as a collection of 'explorations'. The author's interests are multi-faceted and, though often focussed on post-1600 Scotland, by no means restricted to that area.

Feller reviews FORESTS OF ASH: An Environmental History by Tom Griffiths.