701-0791-00L Environmental History - Introduction and Overview
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2018 |
| Lecturers | D. Speich Chassé |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Comment | Number of participants limited to 100. |
| 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 in digital form. |
| 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 last session |