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Environmental history is the study of human interaction ... In 2004 a theme issue of Environment and History 10(4) provided an overview of environmental history as ...
The time from roughly 15,000 to 5,000 BCE was a time of transition, and swift and extensive environmental change, as the planet was moving from an Ice age, towards an interstadial (warm period). Sea levels rose dramatically (and are continuing to do so ), land that was depressed by glaciers began lifting up again , forests and deserts expanded ...
The history of environmental pollution traces human-dominated ecological systems from the earliest civilizations to the present day. [1] This history is characterized by the increased regional success of a particular society , followed by crises that were either resolved, producing sustainability , or not, leading to decline.
— Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency established. — The metaphor Ecological footprint is coined by William Rees. 1993 — The Great Flood of 1993 was one of the most destructive floods in United States history involving the Missouri and Mississippi River valleys. 1994 — United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
In the 1980s, members of the history department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock organized a lecture series entitled "Historical Ecology: Essays on Environment and Social Change" [8] The authors noted the public's concerns with pollution and dwindling natural resources, and they began a dialogue between researchers with specialties ...
[158] [159] Furthermore, he put protection of the global environment on the international diplomatic agenda for the first time in world history. [160] Then Nixon reversed himself and in 1972 he vetoed the Clean Water Act —objecting not to the policy goals of the legislation but to the amount of money to be spent on them, which he deemed ...
Environmental skepticism: Indur M. Goklany: 2007 A Short History of Progress: Environmental history: Ronald Wright: 2004 Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization: Various themes: Ward Churchill: 1993, 1999, 2002
The history of ecology, however, should not be conflated with that of environmental thought. Ecology as a modern science traces only from Darwin's publication of Origin of Species and Haeckel's subsequent naming of the science needed to study Darwin's theory.