The Silent Countdown: Essays in European Environmental History

There is a growing need for cooperation between disciplines, not only to deal with the burning problems of the present, but to study the interaction of societies and their ecosystems in the past. In the 1970s studies in Environmental History were largely confined to North America. Recent years have brought about a vast increase in the "amount, the quality and the scope of scholarship on historical interactions between human (social and economic) de-...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364275161X
• ISBN13: 9783642751615
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"