Rethinking Environmental History World-System History and Global Environmental Change
, by Hornborg, Alf; McNeill, J. R.; Martinez-Alier, Joan; Bunker, Stephen G.; Fisher, William H.; Gassón, Rafael A.; Giljum, Stefan; Håkansson, N Thomas; Heyman, Josiah; Hughes, J Donald; Jorgenson, Andrew K.; Marks, Robert B.; -Alier, Joan Martinez; Moore, Ja- ISBN: 9780759110281 | 075911028X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/18/2007
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems over time. Alf Hornborg has brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth system with studies of the World system, and to reconceptualize human-environmental relations and the challenges of global sustainability. Immanuel Wallerstein, renowned Yale sociologist and originator of the world-system concept, closes the volume with his reflections on the intellectual, moral, and political implications of global environmental change.