Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology.

Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to environmental history-especially how knowledge in the field sciences has intersected with changing environments-and addresses key present-day problems related to sustainability, such as global climate, biodiversity, oceans, and more.

Contributors to Knowing Global Environments reveal how the field sciences have interacted with practical economic activities, such as forestry, agriculture, and tourism, as well as how the public has been involved in the field sciences, as field assistants, students, and local collaborators.

JEREMY VETTER is an assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona.

"Knowing Global Environments thoroughly recasts our understanding of the field sciences by embedding them in environmental history, political economy, and a deepening public involvement. Each case study is a gem, rich in detail and conceptually provocative.

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"The chapters in this rare volume soar to the heights of mountains and plunge into the depths of the oceans while asserting the significance of a spatial orientation within the history of science and environmental history."

"A valuable contribution to the growing dialogue between historians of science and environmental historians. We have under one cover a fascinating compendium of theses and their environmental implications."

"Anyone who wants to learn about or contribute to the history of field sciences will find much to ponder in these provocative, well-documented essays. Recommended."