Religion's connection to the environment, some historians say, goes back to St. Francis of Assisi tending to the beasts of the forest.
While remaining an ecologist, I became a fellow traveler with those who directly study long-term human-environment relationships — archaeologists, geographers, environmental historians and agricultural economists.
Julia Hudson-Rishards is a food activist and historian who studies the environment, food and the people who produce it.
Virtual archaeology projects have been evolving to go beyond a mere reconstruction of architecture and artefacts of heritage sites: human interaction with the environment is also an object of research for historians and archaeologists.
Jon Christensen is an environmental historian in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA.
In Japan's case, these scholars became environmental historians to examine the origins of the environment problems Japan was facing [15].
Fernand Braudel, a pioneering French historian, explored the ways in which the environment has shaped European history.
We need a government responsive to those already there: the environment NGOs, the climate change scientists, the global governance academics, the historians of transnational interconnectedness.
"He's got to strike now," said presidential historian Allan Lichtman of American University, who believes the economy, the environment and long-term changes in federal entitlements are key to Obama's legacy.
We want architects, and architectural critics and historians, to reflect on driving concepts and abstractions that shape our built environment in forward-thinking, planning-oriented fashion.
