"This Delta, This Land" is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta--the first one to place the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. The Delta, the floodplain between two great rivers in the northwestern corner of Mississippi, has changed enormously since the Civil War. Agriculture, lumbering, and flood-management schemes have transformed it beyond recognition--and beyond any prospects for a full recovery.
However, says Mikko Saikku, the 150 years following the Civil War brought greater environmental change than we generally...
"This Delta, This Land" is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta--the first one to place the Delta's economic and cu...
"This Delta, This Land" is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta--the first one to place the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. The Delta, the floodplain between two great rivers in the northwestern corner of Mississippi, has changed enormously since the Civil War. Agriculture, lumbering, and flood-management schemes have transformed it beyond recognition--and beyond any prospects for a full recovery.
However, says Mikko Saikku, the 150 years following the Civil War brought greater environmental change than we generally...
"This Delta, This Land" is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta--the first one to place the Delta's economic and cu...
A deeper understanding of contemporary environmental problems requires us to know where we come from, and the study of environmental history will help us in that quest. Environmental history, in short, may be described as an attempt to study the interaction between humans and nature in the past. How have human societies affected their environment and vice versa? What does history tell us about ecological change? The essays in "Encountering the Past in Nature" provide various approaches to the new discipline. Experts with diverse educational backgrounds tackle important issues in...
A deeper understanding of contemporary environmental problems requires us to know where we come from, and the study of environmental history will help...
