Environments and Historical Change: The Linacre Lectures 1998 [Hardcover]

Paul Slack (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 3, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0198233884 | ISBN-13: 978-0198233886

This book explores the shifting relationship between people and their environments by focusing on the environmental change and historical change from the last Ice Age to the present. It examines questions such as: How has climate fluctuated and why? How have people exploited nature and defined their local place in it? Why have boundaries taken the shapes they have?

Editorial Reviews

Review

`An interdisciplinary approach is a promising way of studying the envrionment-society relationship and this book is a good example of this ... this book contains a set of multifaceted views on history of the environment-society relation that enriches our knowledge of the present and helps us to face it.' Manuel Arias Maldonado, Environmental Politics

`Worthwhile reading, with some surprising findings' W. Ouderkirk, CHOICE

About the Author

Paul Slack is Principal of Linacre College, Oxford.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198233884
• ISBN-13: 978-0198233886
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,305,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)