Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps and Models
Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps and Models
edited by Johan Goudsblom and Bert de Vries
Amsterdam University Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-90-5356-535-3 | Paper: 978-90-5356-655-8 | eISBN: 978-90-485-0508-1 Library of Congress Classification GF41.M35 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 304.2
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The interaction between humans and their natural environment today is unprecedented in its scope and complexity, and recent scholarly research attests to the need for a multidisciplinary approach to fully study it. Mappae Mundi answers this call for a scholarly synthesis, illuminating dominant social trends affecting the relationship between human societies and the environment.
Contributors discuss this relationship, and analyze several different possibilities for the future. Mappae Mundi will appeal to social scientists or anyone interested in the current and future consequences of our interaction with the natural environment.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Johan Goudsblom is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Bert de Vries is a senior researcher at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
1. Introduction: Towards a Historical View of Humanity and the Biosphere Goudsblom and De Vries
2. Introductory Overview: the Expanding Anthroposphere Goudsblom
3. The Holocene: Global Change and Local Response Marchant and De Vries
4. Environment and the Great Transition: Agrarianization De Vries and Marchant
5. Exploring the Past: on Methods and Concepts De Vries, Marchant and De Greef
6. Increasing Social Complexity De Vries
7. Empire: the Romans in the Mediterranean Van der Leeuw and De Vries
8. Understanding: Fragments of a Unifying Perspective De Vries, Thompson and Wirtz
9. Population and Environment in Asia since 1600 AD Revi, Dronin and De Vries
10. The Past 250 Years: Industrialization and Globalization Goudsblom
11. Back to Nature? The Punctuated History of a Natural Monument Westbroek
12. Conclusions: Retrospect and Prospects Goudsblom and De Vries
Notes
Bibliography
About the Authors