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Environmental history

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, environmental history means: The study of changing relationships between people and the nonhuman environment over time.

In Turkish: çevre tarihi

How it is used

Examine environmental processes alongside human institutions; neither alone explains every historical change.

Example sentences

  1. Her environmental history traces how irrigation changed both wetlands and village relations.

    Ecological change and social organization are studied together.

  2. The course uses environmental history to compare responses to forest loss.

    Human responses form part of the history, not just the physical loss.

Common collocations

  • environmental history research
  • an environmental history of forests
  • historyThe study of past events, especially those of human societies, and the written account that historians produce from the evidence they find.
  • agrarianRelating to farming, land and the people who work it, or describing a society or economy based mainly on agriculture.

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