Mauch Christof: Introduction .................................... 9
Opening Speeches
Huber Bernd: Welcome ........................................... 13
Heubisch Wolfgang: Address ..................................... 15
Lohse Martin J.: Welcome Address ............................... 17
Lectures
McNeill John R.: Envisioning an Ecological Atlantic,
1500-1850 ...................................................... 21
Carruthers Jane: Vanishing Herds? Transformations in Wildlife
Hunting in Southern Africa, 1830-2000 ....................... 35
Robin Libby: The Love-Hate Relationship with Land in
Australia: Presenting "Exploitation and Sustainability" in
Museums ..................................................... 47
Padua José Augusto: The Politics of Forest Conservation in
Brazil: A Historical View ................................... 65
Chakrabarti Ranjan: History and Future of Water in South
Asia: A Preliminary Probe ................................... 81
Chibilev Alexander, and Levykin Sergei: Virgin Lands Divided
by an Ocean: The Fate of Grasslands in the Northern
Hemisphere (Translated and annotated by David Moon) ......... 91
Elvin Mark: Sustainability versus Adaptation: Comments on
the Chinese Experience ..................................... 105
Melosi Martin V.: Coping with Abundance Revisited: American
Energy Choices ............................................. 129
Environmental Studies: Research in Progress
Doctoral Dissertations from Georg-August-Universität,
Göttingen
Anders Ulrike: Less Bread—More Stones: Land-Use Change from
the Late Eighteenth Century to the Beginning of the
Twenty-First Century. A Regional Study of Göttingen ........ 141
Cammin Ronny: Analyses of the Utilisation and Protection of
Waterways in Lower Saxony during the Late Middle Ages and
the Early Modern Period (1350-1650) ........................ 145
Kieseler Andreas: Natural Environment and Societal Actions
in the West Slavic Territory: Conditions and Effects of
Hillfort Building in the Natural Environment, Eighth to
Twelfth Centuries .......................................... 147
Kronenberg Nicole: Disaster Responses to Floods: A Comparison
of Vietnam and Germany in the Twentieth Century ............ 153
Lassen Thore: Famines in Early Modern History: An
Environmental Analysis of the Landscapes in Lower Saxony,
1690-1750 .................................................. 155
Riesmeyer Philipp: High and Low Water Events on North German
Rivers: Coping with Hydrological Extremes on the River
Weser, 1800-1950. A Case Study ............................. 157
Sprenger Jana: Animal Pests in Agriculture and Forestry:
Perception, Damage, and Control in Prussian Brandenburg,
1700-1850 .................................................. 159
Szücs Linda: Changes of the Landscape since the End of the
Eighteenth Century in the District of Gцttingen ............ 163
Doctoral Dissertations from Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität,
Munich
Achermann Dania: A Case Study on the History of the
Atmospheric Sciences ....................................... 169
Blanc Julia: How Green is the Church? An Analysis of
Subsidiarity in the Catholic Church in Environmental
Policy Debate: A Case Study of Selected European Countries . 173
Blocher Ewald: Constructing Modern Egypt: Experts, Dams, and
the Transformation of the Nile, 1882-1970 .................. 175
Datta Shrabana: Local Perceptions of Climate Change: An
Assessment of Climate Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in
the Area near Gangotri Glacier ............................. 177
Hofmann Rebecca: Perception and Reception of Climate Change
in Micronesia .............................................. 179
Ibeh Lawrence: The Geography of Civil Conflict on the Oil
Frontiers of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: Modelling
the Ecological Correlates and Risk of Micro-Level Violent
Conflict, 1980s-2010 ....................................... 181
Kistler Sebastian: How Much Equality Is Fair? Social-Ethical
Studies on Sustainable and Fair Climate Protection ......... 183
Kneitz Agnes: Econovels: The Concept of Environmental
Justice in the Nineteenth Century Social Novel ............. 185
Mauch Felix: Erinnerungsfluten: The Storm Flood of 1962 in
Hamburg's Civic Memory ..................................... 187
Möller Angelika: "With Recreation for All:" Cemeteries as
City Parks in New York City, 181 1-1898 .................... 189
Monajati Zarrin: Possibilities and Capacities of Islamic
Societies to Construct Environmental Ethics with a Focus
on Iranian Society and its Media ........................... 191
Roxo Valentina: Struggle for Oil: An Environmental History of
West Siberia, 1970s-2008 ................................... 193
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