Bültmann & Gerriets
The Development of Russian Environmental Thought
Scientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment
von Jonathan Oldfield, Denis Shaw
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
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ISBN: 978-1-317-36632-4
Erschienen am 05.10.2015
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 212 Seiten

Preis: 62,99 €

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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.



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



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.


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