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Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and ...
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 ...
Historians pose a strange paradox regarding Nixon. In 1970-1971 he unexpectedly emerged as a great environmentalist who deserves credit for several of the most important environmental laws in American history. By 1972, however, he suddenly moved far to the right, despising environmentalists as left-wing fanatics who would bankrupt the economy.
This timeline of the history of environmentalism is a listing of events that have shaped humanity's perspective on the environment. This timeline includes human induced disasters, environmentalists that have had a positive influence, and environmental legislation .
History of water fluoridation (from c. 1901, with research on cause Colorado brown stain) History of water supply and sanitation (from ancient times) History of wildfire suppression in the United States; Environmental history of Latin America
The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) is a professional society for the field of environmental history.The ASEH was founded in 1977 and its mission is to increase understanding of current environmental issues by analyzing their historical background.
This history makes clear that conservation in the U.S. has always been about economic growth and development in the public interest, and the environmental impact only became part of its focus in ...
Historical ecology studies the interactions between people and their environment over the long term. Historical ecology is a research program that focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment over long-term periods of time, typically over the course of centuries. [1]