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Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment) by Jeremy Vetter, Mark Barrow, J. Conor Burns, James Rodger Fleming is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment) about?

__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.

Who reads Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives on the Field Sciences (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Jeremy Vetter, Mark Barrow, J. Conor Burns, James Rodger Fleming
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780813580449
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Nature, History, Science

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