Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History And Global Environmental Change

Anthropologists, historians, and economists are among the contributors who highlight how landscape changes and technological innovations are distributed in space, as an alternative to the usual way of looking at environmental history as a collective human experience over time. Their common framework is the World System, which looks at the unequal power relations between rich core areas and impoverished peripheries. In 20 essays they trace social processes in nature, and unravel environmental injustice in the modern world. This is one of two volumes to emerge from a September 2003 conference in Lund, Sweden. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and professor of human ecology at Lund University. J. R. McNeill is professor of history, director of graduate studies, and Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environmental and International Affairs at Georgetown University. Joan Martinez-Alier is professor of ecological economics in the Department of Economics and Economic History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.