Jonathan Oldfield, Denis Shaw

The Development of Russian Environmental Thought (eBook, ePUB)

Scientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317366317
• Artikelnr.: 43977816

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Oldfield is Reader in Russian Environmental Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.

Denis Shaw is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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