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1 | Introduction: history and ecology | 1 |
Environmental history | 4 | |
The community of life | 5 | |
Community ecology and history | 6 | |
Ecological process | 7 | |
2 | Primal harmony | 12 |
The Serengeti: kinship of humans with other forms of life | 14 | |
Kakadu, Australia: the primal tradition | 19 | |
Hopi, Arizona: agriculture in the spirit of the land | 22 | |
3 | The great divorce of culture and nature | 30 |
The Uruk Wall: Gilgamesh and urban origins | 33 | |
The Nile Valley: ancient Egypt and sustainability | 38 | |
Tikal: the collapse of classic Maya culture | 42 | |
4 | Ideas and impacts | 52 |
Athens: mind and practice | 59 | |
Xian: Chinese environmental problems and solutions | 66 | |
Rome: environmental reasons for the decline and fall | 73 | |
5 | The Middle Ages | 83 |
Florence and the European scene: the barriers to growth | 86 | |
Tahiti, Hawai'i, New Zealand: Polynesian impacts on island ecosystems | 93 | |
Cuzco: conservation in the empire of the Incas | 99 | |
6 | The transformation of the biosphere | 109 |
Tenochitlan: the European biotic invasion | 113 | |
London: city, country, and empire in the Industrial Age | 119 | |
The Galapagos Islands: Darwin's vision of evolution | 127 | |
7 | Exploitation and conservation | 141 |
The Western Ghats: tradition and change | 148 | |
Grand Canyon: preservation or enjoyment? | 155 | |
Aswan: the dams and their effects | 162 | |
8 | Modern environmental problems | 174 |
Bali: a green revolution? | 182 | |
Willamette National Forest: now that the big trees are down | 188 | |
Bryansk: the aftermath of Chernobyl | 193 | |
9 | Present and future | 206 |
Denver: a sense of place | 213 | |
Amazon: the threats to biodiversity | 217 | |
Nairobi and the world: the United Nations Environment Program | 224 | |
10 | A general conclusion | 238 |
Bibliographical essay: writing on global environmental history | 242 | |
Index | 249 |
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