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Knowing
Global Environments
Price: $49.95
Subtitle: New
Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences
Editor: Jeremy Vetter
Subject: Environmental,
Science
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4875-3
Pages:
272 pages
Publication Date: October 2010
Series: Studies
in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
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the introduction.
Praise:
"Anyone who wants to learn about or contribute to the history of field sciences will find much to ponder in these provocative, well-documented essays. Recommended."
—Choice, April 2011
"The chapters in this
rare volume soar to the heights of mountains and plunge into the depths
of the oceans while asserting the significance of a spatial orientation
within the history of science and environmental history."
—Frederick R.
Davis, Florida State University [History]
Description:
Knowing Global Environments
brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of
environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture,
botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography,
ornithology, and tidology.
Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences,
through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific
knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the
local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also
shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to
environmental history—especially how knowledge in the field sciences
has intersected with changing environments—and addresses key
present-day problems related to sustainability, such as global climate,
biodiversity, oceans, and more.
Contributors to Knowing Global
Environments reveal how the field sciences have interacted with
practical economic activities, such as forestry, agriculture, and
tourism, as well as how the public has been involved in the field
sciences, as field assistants, students, and local collaborators.
About the Editor:
JEREMY VETTER is an
assistant professor of history, Department of History, University of
Arizona.
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