Law--Biological Conservation

Law--Biological Conservation

Description

Professor Fischman's contribution is titled "Law--Biological Conservation."

ISBN

0415937329 (hb.)

Publication Date

2004

Publisher

Routledge

City

New York, NY

Keywords

Human Ecology-Encyclopedias, Human Beings, Effect of Environment On Nature, Effect of Human Beings On Nature

Disciplines

Environmental Law | Law

Comments

Krech, Shepard, John Robert McNeill and Carolyn Merchant, eds. Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. Routledge, 2004.

In order to address today's global environmental challenges, it is important to understand them within the context of humankind's influences on its environment throughout the ages. The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History provides much needed explanation of urgent social and environmental issues — from urbanization to water shortages, climate change to the extinction of species — in articles replete with the stories of human and natural history.

World historians, anthropologists, geographers, and biologists from 26 countries have pooled their knowledge for the first time to trace the interaction of humankind and nature over the course of human history, across cultures, and in the modern world. In more than 500 accessible articles emphasizing cross-cultural exchange, diffusion, and change over time, these scholars demonstrate why the approaches of environmental history are having such wide influence, and how past problems can cast new light on current debates.

The distinguished editors — Shepard Krech III, John McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant — are assisted by an international editorial advisory board of senior scholars, with contributors including Donald Worster, Alfred Crosby, William McNeill, and James Lovelock. Featuring up-to-date coverage of the latest developments in the field, this fascinating new work belongs in any collection serving world history, ecology, environmental studies, geography, or environmental science programs.

Full bibliographic details available here.

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, GF 10 .E63 2004

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