TY  - BOOK
AU  - Uekötter,Frank
TI  - The Turning Points of Environmental History
SN  - 9780822977629
AV  - GE50 
U1  - 333.7209 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - PIttsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Environmental sciences-History
KW  - Human ecology-History
KW  - Environmentalism-History
KW  - Environmental degradation-History
KW  - Nature-Effect of human beings on
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Thinking Big: The Broad Outlines of a Burgeoning Field -- 2. The First Hundred Thousand Years -- 3. Agriculture -- 4. Forest History -- 5. The Nation-State -- 6. Urban Environmental History -- 7. The "1950s Syndrome" and the Transition from a Slow-Going to a Rapid Loss of Global Sustainability -- 8. Modern Environmentalism -- 9. The Knowledge Society -- 10. Desertification -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index
N2  - In this volume, an international group of environmental historians examine the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2039336
ER  -