Net Werk voor de Geschiedenis van Hygiene en Milieu, 1999-2001 ...

Fourier’s Theory of Terrestrial Temperatures;
John Tyndall, Svante
Arrhenius, and Early Research on
Carbon Dioxide and Climate; T.
C. Chamberlin and the Geological
Agency of the Atmosphere; The
Climatic Determinism of Ellsworth
Huntington; Global Warming
The Early Twentieth Century; and
Global Cooling, Global Warming:
Historical Dimensions.”
Fraser Hart, J. The rural landscape,
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins,
1998), ISBN 0801857171, 408
blz.
Hill, P. J. en R. E. Meiners (eds.),
Who owns the Environment,
(Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers, 1998), ISBN
0847690814, 368 blz.
Homer-Dixen, T. en J. Blitt Ecoviolence:
Links among environment,
population, and security,
(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 1998), ISBN
0847688690, 256 blz.
‘Ecoviolence’ explores links between
environmental scarcities of key renewable
resources-such as cropland,
fresh water, and forests-and violent
rebellions, insurgencies, and ethnic
clashes in developing countries.
Detailed contemporary studies of
civil violence in Chiapas, Gaza,
South Africa, Pakistan, and Rwanda
show how environmental scarcity
has played a limited to significant
role in causing social instability in
each of these contexts. Drawing
upon theory and key findings from
the case studies, the authors suggest
that environmental scarcity will
worsen in many poor countries in
coming decades and will become
an increasingly important cause of
major civil violence.”
Jobin, W., Dams and disease, (London:
Routledge, 1999), ISBN
0419223606, 600 blz.
Konijnendijk, C. C., ‘A short
history of urban forestry in Europe.’,
Journal of Arboriculture,
jrg. 23 (1997) January, pp. 31-
39.
Lide, J. H., Transforming Morocco:
environmental change and
social Order in the Gharb, 1912-
1956, Phd University Of Maryland
College Park (1998).
“This dissertation examines the
history of French colonialism in
morocco from an environmental
perspective by studying the impact
of French rule on the Gharb, an
agricultural region to the north of
Rabat. As part of what they saw
as being their ‘civilizing mission’
in Morocco, the French struggled
to inscribe their own concepts of
space, landscape, and environment
onto the Gharb’s inhabitants. As a
result, the 750,000 hectare region
along the Sebou river became the
focus of French efforts to make
Morocco ‘useful’ through manipulation
of its environment and
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control over how Moroccans made
use of their own natural surroundings.
This study of the Gharb sits
at the intersection of recent trends
in three separate historical fields.
As colonial history, it examines the
contours of cultural domination
expressed through environmental
imagery. As environmental history,
it investigates the underlying
perceptions and motivations which
influenced the creation of colonial
landscapes. And as cultural history,
it looks at the intimate relationship
between environmental controls
and social order in a colonial setting.”
Lovett, F. N., National Parks:
Rights and the Common Good,
(Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield,
1998), ISBN 0847689778.
Mcleod, K. S., Melting Snow: A reexamination
of Dr. John Snow,
his dot-map and the 1854 Broad
Street cholera outbreak, (MA
Carleton University (Canada)
1998).
“The mythical story of John Snow
and the Broad Street outbreak is
common in medical geography,
epidemiology, and the history of
medicine. In 1854, Snow identified
the source of the cholera outbreak
in golden square (in present-day
soho) as the Broad Street pump,
possibly with a dot-map of cholera
deaths, and successfully argued for
the removal of the pump’s handle.
Many accounts state that this action
ended the outbreak. In all
three disciplines, snow is presented
as a hero because he showed how
cholera is transmitted, because his
ideas affected public health policy,
and because he provided definitive
proof of a hypothesis. For medical
geography, Snow’s heroic reputation
is related to his determinative use
of a dot-map, and many authors
feature the map in their presentations
of the story. However, the
twentieth-century versions of this
map can be quite different from
one another. This thesis re-examines
the myth of John Snow, his dotmap,
and the 1854 Broad Street
outbreak--informed by archival
research--and challenges the takenfor-granted
repetition of the story
in the three disciplines. The process
of retelling the story encourages future
investigation of the meaning of
the myth in disciplinary contexts;
of the nature of proof of causation;
and of how evidence, argument and
authority work in science.”
Malamud, R. Reading zoos: representations
of animals and captivity,
(New York: MacMillan Press,
1998), ISBN 0333714067, 392
blz.
“Through an examination of modern
depictions of zoos, Reading
Zoos presents a paradigm of how
these institutions, and a range of
reactions to them, illuminate the
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