Sentences with phrase «environmental historian»

There is a growing consensus among environmental historians that there were forms of environmental activism in the late 19th and early 20th century.

There is a fascinating book called Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by environmental historian William Cronon that traces the changing human impact on the New England landscape from the days when Native Americans burned the undergrowth to make hunting game easier to days of European farmers to more recent types of development.

In hindsight, says environmental historian Wilko von Hardenberg of the Max Planck Institute for...

Environmental historian J.R. McNeill, PhD, is professor of history and University Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

«There is little doubt that farmers along the Missouri Valley, their federal and state government representatives (including Senator Roy Blunt), and the Ag Lobby (which includes the Corn Growers Association) will use the ruling to publicly bludgeon environmentalists,» Robert Schneiders, an environmental historian who has written two books about the Missouri River, wrote in an email.

Still, this window on the past is less than perfect, warns Linda Evans, an environmental historian at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who studies representations of animals in ancient Egyptian art.

Secondly, according to environmental historians, the first campaigns to conserve natural resources and save wilderness occurred in the late nineteenth century (such as John Muir's Sierra Club to protect Yosemite in 1892), and a few people were writing on the subject before that, such as Henry Thoreau («in Wildness is the preservation of the world,» - from Walden).

Carl Zimring is an environmental historian and Professor of...

Scientists who study long - term human / environment relationships, such as archaeologists and environmental historians, know of this as «intensification» or «niche construction».

I also joined two of the university's professors — the climate scientist Alex Hall and the environmental historian Jon Christensen — for an onstage Zócalo Public Square discussion of this question: «Should we just adapt to climate change?»

The last 12 months have seen the publication of Jedediah Purdy's «After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene,» McKenzie Wark's provocative «Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene» and the environmental historian Jason W. Moore's important «Capitalism in the Web of Life.»

At the beginning of winter quarter, Kendall joined Sarah Anderson and environmental historian and Environmental Studies professor Peter Alagona to lead one research project on the biological, social, and cultural dimensions of wildlife reintroductions, using the proposed reintroduction of grizzly bears in California as a case study.

Steven Pyne is an environmental historian of an older generation whose denigration of cultural history alienated me a long time ago; he calls for a middle ground between environmentalists and development makes more sense on a theoretical level than a practical one.

It turns out he is Michael Egan, an «environmental Historian» and professor at McMaster University on his way to Washington to meet Barry Commoner.