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An environmental history of Great Britain : from 10,000 years ago to the present / I.G. Simmons.

By: Simmons, I. G. (Ian Gordon), 1937-
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2001.Description: xi, 419 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 074861284X; 0748612831 (pbk.)Subject(s): Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Britain -- History | Human geography -- Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 304.20941 | 304.2/0941
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- The purpose and scope of the book -- Nature and culture in the last 10,000 years -- Frameworks for the reader -- Links between economy and environment -- Committed history? -- The organisation of the material -- Chapter 2 HUNTER-GATHERERS AND FISHERFOLK: 10,000 TO 5000 BP -- Introduction: the beginning -- The current interglacial -- People and cultures -- Environment and culture -- The possible role of humans -- A summary of environmental change involving humans -- Into the agricultural era -- Chapter 3 SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT: AGRICULTURALISTS -- Introduction: a very long duration -- Atmospheric changes: the climate -- Cultivated land and grasslands -- Relations with the woodlands -- The creation of new landforms -- Heaths and moorlands -- Industries -- Sacred space -- The social context -- Overview -- Chapter 4 CLOSED AND OPEN SYSTEMS, AD 550 TO AD 1700 -- Atmospheric changes: the climate -- Landform change -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Woods and forests -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Rural settlement -- Urban settlement -- Industry -- Pleasure and the environment -- Energy -- Sacred space -- Social context -- Connections: at home and abroad -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Chapter 5 BUILDING JERUSALEM: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- The atmosphere -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Rural settlement -- Urban settlement -- Industry -- Energy -- The rich and their pleasure -- Sacred space -- The extension of the economy -- A century's trends -- Chapter 6 INDUSTRIAL GROWTH: MATERIAL EMPIRES, 1800-1914 -- The atmosphere -- Landforms -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Fishing and whaling -- Energy -- Industry -- Urban settlement -- Rural settlement -- Leisure and pleasure -- Sacred space -- Wildlife and its protection -- International linkages -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- A summary -- Chapter 7 'A FIT COUNTRY FOR HEROES, 1914-50 -- Climate -- Landforms -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Industry and wastes -- Urban settlement -- Rural settlement -- Military lands -- The coasts -- Fishing and whaling -- Energy -- Environmental protection and conservation -- Specialised leisure -- Sacred space -- Administration and planning -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- The 1950s: legacies and foreshadowings -- Chapter 8 A POST-INDUSTRIAL WORLD, 1950 TO THE PRESENT -- Introduction: millennium fever -- Atmosphere and climate -- Landforms -- Fresh water -- Forestry and woodlands -- Agriculture -- Sacred space -- Fresh-water wetlands -- Heaths, moors and other commons -- Military lands -- Conservation and landscape protection -- Rural settlement: the rural economy -- The urban-industrial environment -- Land use: the overall picture -- Leisure and environment -- Coasts -- Fisheries in the post-industrial world -- Energy -- Population trends -- Administration -- The international scene -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Contradictions of the time -- Chapter 9 EXPERIENCE AND MEANING -- Introduction: many pasts -- Critical periods -- Cultural context -- Pathways -- Appendix 1 THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT FROM THE AIR -- Notes -- Biographies -- Glossary -- A selected bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- The purpose and scope of the book -- Nature and culture in the last 10,000 years -- Frameworks for the reader -- Links between economy and environment -- Committed history? -- The organisation of the material -- Chapter 2 HUNTER-GATHERERS AND FISHERFOLK: 10,000 TO 5000 BP -- Introduction: the beginning -- The current interglacial -- People and cultures -- Environment and culture -- The possible role of humans -- A summary of environmental change involving humans -- Into the agricultural era -- Chapter 3 SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT: AGRICULTURALISTS -- Introduction: a very long duration -- Atmospheric changes: the climate -- Cultivated land and grasslands -- Relations with the woodlands -- The creation of new landforms -- Heaths and moorlands -- Industries -- Sacred space -- The social context -- Overview -- Chapter 4 CLOSED AND OPEN SYSTEMS, AD 550 TO AD 1700 -- Atmospheric changes: the climate -- Landform change -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Woods and forests -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Rural settlement -- Urban settlement -- Industry -- Pleasure and the environment -- Energy -- Sacred space -- Social context -- Connections: at home and abroad -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Chapter 5 BUILDING JERUSALEM: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- The atmosphere -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Rural settlement -- Urban settlement -- Industry -- Energy -- The rich and their pleasure -- Sacred space -- The extension of the economy -- A century's trends -- Chapter 6 INDUSTRIAL GROWTH: MATERIAL EMPIRES, 1800-1914 -- The atmosphere -- Landforms -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Fishing and whaling -- Energy -- Industry -- Urban settlement -- Rural settlement -- Leisure and pleasure -- Sacred space -- Wildlife and its protection -- International linkages -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- A summary -- Chapter 7 'A FIT COUNTRY FOR HEROES, 1914-50 -- Climate -- Landforms -- Woods and forests -- Agriculture and grasslands -- Heaths, moors and mountains -- Fresh water and fresh-water wetlands -- Industry and wastes -- Urban settlement -- Rural settlement -- Military lands -- The coasts -- Fishing and whaling -- Energy -- Environmental protection and conservation -- Specialised leisure -- Sacred space -- Administration and planning -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- The 1950s: legacies and foreshadowings -- Chapter 8 A POST-INDUSTRIAL WORLD, 1950 TO THE PRESENT -- Introduction: millennium fever -- Atmosphere and climate -- Landforms -- Fresh water -- Forestry and woodlands -- Agriculture -- Sacred space -- Fresh-water wetlands -- Heaths, moors and other commons -- Military lands -- Conservation and landscape protection -- Rural settlement: the rural economy -- The urban-industrial environment -- Land use: the overall picture -- Leisure and environment -- Coasts -- Fisheries in the post-industrial world -- Energy -- Population trends -- Administration -- The international scene -- Sensibilities and attitudes to environment -- Contradictions of the time -- Chapter 9 EXPERIENCE AND MEANING -- Introduction: many pasts -- Critical periods -- Cultural context -- Pathways -- Appendix 1 THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT FROM THE AIR -- Notes -- Biographies -- Glossary -- A selected bibliography -- Index.