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Global Environment - A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences” publishes articles, book reviews, interviews, scientific projects, political documents, bibliographies on the environment and world history, with special regard to the modern and contemporary ages. The journal’s main commitment is to bring together different areas of expertise in both natural and social sciences to help them to find a common language and a common perspective in the study of history.
One of the journal’s main commitments should be to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to help them find a common language and a common perspective in the study of history.
Our journal intends to transcend the Westerncentric and “developist” bias that has informed international environmental historiography so far. The journal should favor the emerging of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It should replace the notion of “hierarchy” with that of “relation” and “exchange” - between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas - in the construction and destruction (in cases where exchange processes involve damage and degradation) of environments and ecosystems. The global history of the environment cannot limit itself to looking at how the Western model asserted itself in the countries of the South of the world; it also needs to study how this model merged with local experiences. The editorial board of the journal is composed, indeed, not only by researchers living and studying in Europe and North America but also in South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
To be grounded in an authentic concept of integration, both politics and educational models require a knowledge of local historical experiences and the ways in which they blended with Western culture. This is a knowledge that can only be attained through global communication. We need to transpose to the scientific plane the great merging of cultures that has been going on for a long time now as the result of globalization in its various forms.
We need to give voice and space to historical experiences from the most remote regions of the globes, not just to represent the role played by the West in their transformation processes, but looking at them as autonomous and independent entities. We will strive to provide a medium for communication and discussion between scholars from very distant - culturally as well spatially - parts of the world, seeking to highlight the relationship between global phenomena and local factors. www.globalenvironment.it <http://www.globalenvironment.it>
Price: € 22,50
Pages: 270
Size: 15X21
Language: English Issn: 1973-3739
Credits
<http://www.xledizioni.com/upload/82/att_credits.pdf> Abstracts
<http://www.xledizioni.com/upload/82/att_abstracts.pdf> Contents - number 1/2008 Mauro Agnoletti and Gabriella Corona, Editorial <http://www.xledizioni.com/upload/82/att_editorial.pdf>
<http://www.xledizioni.com/upload/82/att_editorial.pdf> Research articlesGuillermo H. Castro, Isthmus in the World. Elements for an Environmental History of Panama
Holly High, Violent Landscape: Global Explosions and Lao Life-Worlds
Laura Hollsten, Controlling Nature and Transforming Landscapes in the Early Modern Caribbean
Emmanuel Kreike, The Nature-Culture Trap: A Critique of Late 20th Century Global Paradigms of Environmental Change in Africa and Beyond
Vimbai Chaumba Kwashirai, Poverty in the Gwai Forest Reserve, Zimbabwe: 1880-1953
Rogério Ribeiro de Oliveira, Environmental History, Traditional Populations, and Paleo-territories in the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Forest
Verena Winiwarter, Nationalized Nature on Picture Postcards: Subtexts of Tourism from an Environmental
Perspective Library
John McNeill discusses Oscar Carpintero
Around the World
Kazukiyo Higuchi and Michael G. Norton, Japan's Eco-Towns and Innovation Clusters: Synergy Towards Sustainability
Institutions and Environmental History
Reinaldo Funes Monzote, The Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History Interviews
Wolfgang Sachs by Federico Paolini, Waiting for a Fair Future…
