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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Oosthoek, K. Jan |
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Date:
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2009 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6328
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Sector:
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General & Multiple Resources
History |
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Subject(s):
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environment--history
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Abstract:
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"This essay is divided into two parts. The first and smallest part explores what environmental history is and some or its roots. The second part deals with some of the issues in environmental history and explores the intellectual and philosophical background behind our ecological crisis. This looks in the way people though about the natural world around them during particular different historical periods. But environmental history is not solely an intellectual history and is also about the impact of humankind on the natural world and the influence of the natural world on human history. The final part of this essay will therefore look at the development of agriculture and the impact on the landscape."
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