Daniel Speich Chassé: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2016 |
| Name | Prof. Dr. Daniel Speich Chassé (Professor Universität Luzern) |
| Address | Universität Luzern Frohburgstrasse 3 Postfach 4466 6002 Luzern SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | 041 229 59 54 |
| Department | Environmental Systems Science |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701-0791-00L | Environmental History - Introduction and Overview  Number of participants limited to 100. | 2 credits | 2V | D. Speich Chassé | |
| Abstract | Our society faces a serious ecological crisis. Of what historical dimension is this crisis? How have human societies already in earlier times changed their environment, and, consequently, perhaps also ours? What were the main ecological challenges for societies and how did they change over time? And how did societies adapt to changing environmental conditions? | ||||
| Learning objective | Introduction into environmental history; survey of long-term development of human-nature-interrelations; discussion of selected problems. Improved ability to assess current problems from a historical perspective and to critically interrogate one's own standpoint. | ||||
| Lecture notes | Course material is provided on OLAT. | ||||
| Literature | McNeill, John R. 2000. Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world, New York: Norton. Uekötter, Frank (Ed.) 2010. The turning points of environmental history, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Winiwarter, Verena und Martin Knoll 2007. Umweltgeschichte: Eine Einführung, Köln: Böhlau. | ||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Students are asked to write an exam during the second last session (11.12.2015). | ||||