Thinking Through the Environment

Timo Myllyntaus is Professor of Finnish history at the University of Turku, Finland. His articles on environmental history deal with forest, water and climate history as well Finnish historiography. He co-edited Encountering the Past in Nature, Essays in Environmental History (2001) and the anthology Pathbreakers, Small European Countries Responding to Glo- balisation and De-globalisation (2008). He is the Board member of the European Society for Environmental History and chairs the local organising committee of ESEH's 2011 conference in Turku.

Preface, Timo Myllyntaus TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I. Approaching the Environment of the Past Chapter 1, Fiona Watson Interdisciplinarity as Disciplinary Co-operation: A Plea for the Future of Environmental History Chapter 2, Donald Worster Biography and Environmental History Chapter 3, Frank Uekoetter The Nazis and the Environment - a Relevant Topic? Part II. Cultural Perceptions of Landscapes Chapter 4, Dilshad Rahat Ara The Space of a Dwelling - the Temporal Boundaries of Vernacular Architecture in the Chittagong Hills, Bangladesh Chapter 5, Libby Robin Art and Environmental History: Perceptions of Place and Deep Time in the Australian Desert Chapter 6, Anu Eskonheimo Desertification - A Significant Problem? Diverse Environmental Literacy in the North Kordofan Area of Sudan Chapter 7, Timothy Clack Thinking Through Memoryscapes: Symbolic Environmental Potency on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Chapter 8, Leena Rossi Oral History and Individual Environmental Experiences Part III. Indigenous Peoples and the Pressures of Modernisation Chapter 9, Helena Ruotsala Ancestors' Wisdom or Desktop Reindeer Management? The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Contemporary Reindeer Herding Chapter 10, Jukka Nyyssonen Identity Politics and the Alliance Building between the Sami Parliament and Conservationists in the Kessi Forest Dispute Part IV. Managing Flood Catastrophes Chapter 11, Jochen Seidel, Paul Dostal, Katrin Burger, Florian Imbery and Mariano Barriendos Analysis and Reconstruction of the Flood Catastrophe along the River Neckar (SW-Germany) in October 1824 Chapter 12, Guido Poliwoda Times of Flood - Times of Favour. Disaster Management and the Social Response to Catastroph- ic Floods: the Example of Saxony (1784-1845) Part V. Remoulding Rivers, Reshaping Societies Chapter 13, Erik Tornlund From Natural to Modified Rivers and Back? Timber Floating in Northern Sweden in 1850-1980 and the Use of Historical Knowledge in Today's Ecological Stream Restoration Chapter 14, Viktor Pal To Act or Not to Act: Water Problems in North-east Hungary after 1945