Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change

Book Overview

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and their environment, as well as the challenges of global sustainability.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075911028X
• ISBN13: 9780759110281
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"