“Global Ideas in Local Places: The Humanities in Environmental Management”
Libby Robin explores four key drivers of conservation initiatives: place, landscape, biodiversity, and livelihood.
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Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
Martin Schaffner, Ulm, Germany
An insight into the historic landscape of Württemberg.
The Culture of Landscape Transformation: From an Off-Limits, Open Sewer to the New Emscher Valley
The Hudson River School Emerges
The Hudson River School focused on capturing the natural grandeur of American landscapes.
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On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon
A cultural history of the Grand Canyon that investigates the intersections of culture, nature, and landscape.
Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
William Rueckert’s Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism
The paper probably contains the first mention of the interdisciplinary concept of ecocriticism.
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Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History
A collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses—from history and politics to the visual arts and architecture.
"The Politics of Sustainability: Contemporary Art and Ecology"
T. J. Demos, reader in modern and contemporary art at University College London, provides an overview of how relationships between contemporary art, ecology and concepts of sustainability have evolved over the last fifty years.