The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Framing environmental history today and for the future
	New methods, innovative approaches
	Non-human agencies
	Engaging with the planetary and the Anthropocene
	Power, flows, and knowledges
	Practices and actions for current socio-ecological crises
	Future directions in environmental history
	Bibliography
Part I: New Methods, Innovative Approaches
	Chapter 1: Ethics, justice, and environmental histories
		Introduction: Rethinking environmental histories
		Case study 1: Andaman Islands, India
		Case study 2: Western Ghats, India
		Case study 3: Georges River, Sydney, Australia
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Bibliography
			Newspapers and film
			Archives: state and local government
			Other sources
	Chapter 2: Oral and environmental history: Time, place, decolonisation and the more-than-human world
		Introduction
		Time
		Place
		Decolonising research
		De-centring the human
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Sounding environments
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Geographic information systems, remote sensing, and spatial data infrastructure
		Introduction
		Introductory discussion on research in environmental history and GIS
		The historical GIS: new tools and roads for environmental history
		Environmental history and toponymy: a perspective from the integration of geotechnologies
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Non-Human Agencies
	Chapter 5: The tangled bank
		Rewilding
		Restoration
		Opportunism
		Resurrection
		Unravelling
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Multispecies cultures and environmental change: The animal (agency) turn
		Introduction
		Animal agency, environmental change, and history
		Environmental resignification
		Wild predators and representational environments
		Animal shapings of waterscapes
		Cultural multispecies histories of environmental change
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: Animal and vector-borne diseases, zoonoses, and one health
		Zoonotic disease in history
		Concepts of disease in history
			Disease conceptualised as cosmological imbalance
			Disease conceptualised as epidemic miasma
			Disease conceptualised as caused by germs
			Disease conceptualised as ecological
		Contemporary reconstructions (recent past and near future)
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: The non-human in agriculture: Technologies of agriculture and non-human aspects of farming
		Introduction
		The non-human has no borders: science, technology, and the striving for productivity
		Non-humans and humans in industrial agriculture: an infinite process of circulation
		Conclusions: a research agenda on industrial agriculture and the non-human
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: (Inter)national and (trans)regional agents: The coastal sand dunes of Mozambique
		Introduction
		The coast of Mozambique
		Agents of poly-vocal histories
			Peoples, empire, foresters, and dunes
			Dunes, an international affair
		Dunes, present-day challenges
			The intricate web of agents and agencies shaping Mozambique’s coast
			(Trans)regional solutions, (trans)national problems
		Final remarks
		Acknowledgements
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Actor-networks, conservation treaties, and international environmental history: Re-assembling conventions
		Actors and networks
		CITES and the functioning of zoos
		AEWA and the protection of flyways
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: Hazards and disasters: Locusts, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, droughts
		Introduction
		Definitions
		Archives of nature and archives of society
		The environment and anthropogenic influences
		Unpredictability
		Economic impacts of hazards and disasters
		Trans-regional or transnational scope
		Compound events
		Conclusions
		Bibliography
Part III: Engaging with the Planetary and the Anthropocene
	Chapter 12: Planetary boundaries, climate change, and the Anthropocene
		Planetary humanities and social sciences
		Planetary transcendence
		Provincialising the planetary
		Views from nowhere and somewhere
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Extinction in environmental history: Historicising problems of classification and intentionality
		Classification and extinction
		Intentionality and extinction
		Environmental history approaches to extinction
		Acknowledgements
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: Temporality and environmental history in the Anthropocene: Timing Climates, Modelling Futures
		Times, their histories, and planetary-scale environmental knowledge
		Planetary timekeeping
		Modelling anthropogenic futures
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: Fossil fuels from extraction to emissions
		Introduction
		Lithosphere: extractive encounters
		From biosphere to technosphere
		Atmosphere: from extractions to emissions
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part IV: Power, Flows, and Knowledges
	Chapter 16: Global histories of environment and labour in Asia and Africa
		Histories of labour and environment in Asia and Africa
		Environment and labour in energy history
		Labour in Nigeria’s oil industry and its environmental consequences
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 17: Toxicity, racial capitalism, and colonial mining: Lessons from Cyanide and Gold Mining in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia)
		Introduction
		Gold production and cyanide process in Southern Rhodesia: an overview
		Cyanide and toxic gold mining landscapes in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1940s
		Gold mining toxicities, race, and labour in colonial Zimbabwe, 1905–1930
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		Bibliography
			Secondary sources
			Primary sources
	Chapter 18: Local fishermen knowledge and scientific expertise in Eastern Europe and West Africa: Assessing the Unseen
		LEK, expertise, and the fish
		Fish, landscape, birds, and people in the Danube Delta
		Typha, fish, and fishers along the Senegal River
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 19: Historical memory and technocratic failures in environmental impact assessments
		Introduction
		EIAs: origins, global diffusion, and basics
		EIAs increasingly drive environmental conflict
		EIAs regulate air pollution in Quintero-Puchuncaví, Chile
		Scientific dreams and blinders
		Final reflections: EIAs for the Anthropocene?
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		Bibliography
	Chapter 20: Cities, food, water, and environmental history in China, the USA, and India: Making Bubbles
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 21: Urban environmental governance: Historical and political ecological perspectives from South Asia
		Introduction
		Colonial urban ecologies: infrastructures for “improvements”
		Urban political ecologies: power, politics, and place
		Historical urban political ecology (HUPE): a cross-fertilised framework to study urban environmental governance
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part V: Practices and Actions for Current Socio-Ecological Crises
	Chapter 22: Pedagogy for the depressed: Empowerment and hope in the face of the apocalypse
		Concepts and cosmologies
		Convictions
		Conversations
		Community
		Acknowledgements
		Bibliography
	Chapter 23: Activist environmental history: On war machines and guerrilla strategies
		Introduction: entering Manoel’s room
		Casting a wider net
		Filmmaking: a guerrilla strategy?
		The internet: “Mind the gap”
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 24: Communicating environmental history: Reaching diverse audiences through online forums
		How to write
			The diverse audience
			How to choose a topic and communicate it to a diverse audience
		Platforms
			Platforms for communication
			Models for online environmental history communication
		Access, promotion, and community-building
			The virtues of open access
			Promotion and communities
			Usefulness and impact
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		Bibliography
	Chapter 25: Environmental history in museums: Past practice and future opportunities
		Introduction
		Ecological museology and the value of environmental history
		Exhibitions that don’t cost the earth: National Wool Museum, Australia
		Encounters in environmental history: Estonian National Museum
		Programming for the planet: BIOTOPIA, Germany
		Conclusions
		Bibliography
	Chapter 26: Environmental historians, policy, and governance
		Preparing for the call?
		The scope of “policy”
		Historians and policy
		Environmental historians and policy
		Data and information, rights and justice
		Helping deliberation
		Communities of practice for environmental resilience
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 27: Future directions in environmental history
		Where we are
		Knowledge(s)
		Critical reflexivity and community building
		The archive(s)
		Future directions for environmental history
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
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