Spoils and spoilers: a history of Australians shaping their environment
In: The Australian experience
In: The Australian experience
In: Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics, S. 263-276
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 469-471
ISSN: 1527-8050
Abstract: Mass transportation and citizen mobility is one of the most relevant topics in urban planning nowadays. A brief analysis shows the importance of bicycle promotion as a mean of transportation not only for the low implementation costs, but also because of the environmental gains for the city and its inhabitants. This analysis is focused on bicycle promotion policies in Bogotá, Colombia, and states some brief conclusions about the next steps. Resumen: El transporte masivo y la movilidad de la ciudadanía es uno de los ítems más importantes a tener en cuenta en cuanto a planeación urbana. Un corto análisis muestra la importancia de la promoción del uso de la bicicleta como medio de transporte, no sólo por los bajos costos de implementación, sino por los logros medioambientales que benefician a la ciudad y a sus habitantes. El presente análisis se enfoca en las políticas de promoción del uso de la bicicleta en Bogotá, Colombia, y plantea unas cortas conclusiones así como pasos a seguir.
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Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making the Action Visible -- Part 1: Exploring the North -- 1 "A Cruel Climate without Any Kind of Art" -- 2 How Fossils Gave the First Hints of Climate Change -- 3 Technological Heroes -- Part 2: Colonizing the North -- 4 Mounds, Middens, and Social Landscapes -- 5 In Search of Instructive Models -- Part 3: Working the North -- 6 Traversal Technology Transfer -- 7 The Sheep, the Market, and the Soil -- 8 More Things on Heaven and Earth -- 9 A Touch of Frost -- Part 4: Imagining the North -- 10 North Takes Place in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada -- 11 Iceland and the North -- Epilogue: The Networked North -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
In: Peace & change: a journal of peace research, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 568-569
ISSN: 0149-0508
In: Canadian studies 2
In: NACS text series 20
"From the era before European contact to the present day, people living in what is now the United States have constantly been interacting with their environment. The use (and abuse) of natural resources - animals, plants, minerals, water, land - has produced prosperity, conflict, and destruction, reshaping both societies and ecology. The Environment in American History is a clear and comprehensive history that introduces students to the crucial role of the environment in America's past, present, and future. Drawing on current scholarship, Jeffrey L. Crane has created a vibrant and engaging survey that is a key resource for all students of American environmental history"--
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 99, Heft 640, S. 371-382
ISSN: 0011-3530
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This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work. Faced with the ""great acceleration"" of the second half of the twentieth century--characterized by the crisis of the relationship between economic development and civil progress--the history of the environment has tended to separate itself from the history of work. The idea behind this book is to bridge this cultural divide, because human work is one of the main parameters of the anthropic footprint left on ecosystems and social spaces. The dimension of work is--even in a dramatically lacerating form, as shown by th
In: Diplomatic history, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 573-587
ISSN: 0145-2096
The need for an environmental turn in contemporary diplomatic history studies is articulated. Multiple explanations for diplomatic history's relative lack of interest in environmental issues are offered, eg, other relevant topics (eg, war & conflict) are more important & the newness of the environmental movement suggests topic is not an appropriate subject for historical analysis. Two factors that further problematize studies of environmental diplomacy are subsequently identified: the migratory & transnational nature of the environment & the highly theoretical nature of environmental history. Consequently, several texts are recommended in order to establishing an environmental diplomatic history curricula in US universities, eg, Mark Lytle's (1996) seminal work on adopting an environmental approach to US diplomatic history. In addition, three issues that require immediate attention by environmental diplomacy historians & students are illuminated, eg, the US's influence upon the domestic ecology & the global environment. J. W. Parker
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 53, Heft 6, S. 1816-1848
ISSN: 1469-8099
AbstractThis article presents methodologies towards a multilingual literary history of Sri Lanka in the twentieth century by examining multilingual encounters or cultures through places, people, and institutions. Massey's concept of plural space underpins the study and gives rise to various strategies to build a multilingual literary history. The guiding research questions are: How do we construct multilingual literary histories in the context of language-based conflict? What can conflict environments teach us about approaches to multilingual literary histories and spheres? In addition to discovering future directions for intra-national comparative literary studies and documenting multilingual cultures and sites, I also focus on the changing geography of multilingualism in the twentieth century. As ideological separation of language spheres turned to real-world segregation through a series of policy shifts and institutional changes, we see that the pursuit of multilingual research takes us from organic, or naturally occurring, sites of multilingualism to orchestrated, or purposefully created, sites. Orchestrated sites work to counterbalance the decreasing opportunity for organic multilingual encounters in the context of ethnolinguistic conflict.
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Economy, Technologyand the Environment in Europeand in Hungary, 1800-1945 -- 2.1 Industrialization, Urbanizationand the Environment in WesternEurope, 1800-1945 -- 2.2 Industry, Technology and the Environment in East-Central Europe, 1800-1914 -- 2.3 Industry, Technology and the Environment in Hungary, 1920-1945 -- 3 Economy, Technologyand the Environment in EuropeAfter World War II -- 3.1 Economic Growth in Europe After World War II -- 3.2 Postwar Reconstruction in Western and Central Europe and Its Environmental Consequences. The Case of Water Pollution -- 3.3 Environmental Problems and Environmental Laws in Western Europe and the United States After World War II -- 3.4 Environmental Laws and Environmental Quality in Germany in the 1960s-1970s -- 4 Stalinist Vision for Economy and Environment in Hungary in the 1950s -- 4.1 Postwar Reconstruction and Communist Takeovers in East-Central Europe -- 4.2 Stalinist Economic Policies in East-Central Europe in the Early 1950s -- 4.3 Stalinist Economic Policies in Hungary in the Early 1950s -- 4.4 The First Five Year Plan and Its Economic and Environmental Impact in the Valley of the Sajó River -- 5 Economic Reforms and Environmental Protection in Hungary the 1960s -- 5.1 Economic Reform Ideas in Hungaryin the 1950s -- 5.2 Extensive Development and Environmental Pollution in Hungary in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s -- 6 Technological Reform and Environmental Performance in Hungary in the 1960s -- 6.1 The Rise of Environmentalism in West Germany in the 1960s-1970s -- 6.2 The Economical Shift in Hungary in the 1960s-1970s -- 6.3 The Economical Shift and the Energy Shift in the Borsod Basin in the 1960s-1970s -- 6.4 The Environmental Impact of the Economical Shift and the Energy Shift in Hungary in the 1960s-1970s