The Development of Russian Environmental Thought: Scientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment

ISBN-13: 9781138476233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 196 str.

UK) Dr. Jonathan D. (University of Birmingham Oldfield; UK) Denis J. B. (University of Birmingham Shaw

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the very rich thinking about environmental issues which has grown up in Russia since the nineteenth century, a body of knowledge and thought which is not well known to Western scholars and environmentalists. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Landscapes and Earth Systems, Russian Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment, 1880s – 1960s.  2. The Origins of the Russian Geographical Tradition: from Peter the Great to ca. 1880.  3. V. V. Dokuchaev and his School: Soil Science, Natural Historical Zones and Geographical Understandings of the Natural World.  4. Landscape Science and the Physical-Geographical Envelope: Conceptualizations of the Physical Environment during the early Soviet and Stalin Periods.  5. The Post-Second World War Period (1945-1953): Crisis in Science and the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature.  6. Nature-Society Debate and New Directions in the Soviet Geographical Sciences, post-1953  7. Conclusion