CLIMATE AND CATASTROPHES // Mariano Barriendos, M. Carmen Llasat ...12 : Flood Events Research in Historical Time: How to Analyze All Physic and Human Factors Involved from Documentary Sources? // Louise Bodri, Paolo Ghiozzi, Vincenzo Pasquale, Massimo Verdoya ...16 : Last 1000 years climate reconstruction inferred from geothermal measurements in Italy // Rudolf Brázdil, Hubert Valášek, Zbynek Sviták ...23 : Historical economic data as a source of information for the study of meteorological and hydrological extremes in the Czech Republic // Dario Camuffo, Emanuela Pagan, Giovanni Sturaro, Giovanni Cecconi ...29 : Change in sea-level and storm surge frequency at Venice from proxy: the problem and the impact on the historical buildings // Petr Dobrovolný, Rudolf Brázdil ...33 : Strong winds in the Czech Lands during the 16,h-20,h centuries // Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Dennis Wheeler, Gunther P. Können, Maria del Rosario Prieto, Phil Jones, On behalf of the CLIWOC team ...39 : CLIWOC: a co-operative effort to recover climate data for oceanic areas (1750-1850) // Monika Gisler ...43 : Interpreting Earthquakes in IS”’ Century Switzerland: between Science and Theology // Frits B. Koek, Gunther P. Können ...47 : CLIWOC extends the pre-instrumental meteorological databases back in time with quantitative data over the oceans // José Mouthaan ...52 : Responses to Natural Disasters within different confessional contexts: Earthquakes in the Kingdom of Naples and the Dutch Republic 1688-1692 // Jan Munzar ...55 : Floods and people in the Czech Republic: Loss of historical memory // Jan Munzar ...59 : 400 years of Kepler’s meteorological observations from Prague // Per Oyvind Nordli : Methods of climate reconstruction by grain harvest data // Dennis Wheeler : The CLIWOC project: important steps in providing reliable climatic data from logbook accounts //
ACQUATIC // Inés Amorim : Work division and social environment: the Portuguese fisheries in the end of XVIII"’ // Alexei Kraikovski, Zoya Dmitrieva, Dmitry Lajus, Julia Lajus : The natural riches of the region - the legends and the reality. The case of the salmon fisheries of the Russian North before the 19,h c. // Ernesto lópez Losa : Informal Property Rights and Common Management in the Northern Spanish Fisheries until the Twentieth Century // Marc Pavé : History of the Sustainable Management of the South-West European fishing // Jón Th. Thór : The North Atlantic Fisheries History Association (NAFHA) - A Project in Economic, Environmental and Cultural History // Alexei Yurchenko, Vadim Mokievsky, Alexei Kraikovski, Julia Lajus, Daniel Alexandrov. : The Atlantic walrus: history of hunting in the Russian Arctic // POLLUTION // Michel Dupuy : The Ore Mounts, a symbolic mountainin the history of air pollution // Juan Diego Pérez Cebada : Public Opinion and Water Pollution Problems in Paris at the End of 19,b C. // Anselm Tiggemann : Nuclear waste disposal in Gorleben - A neverending story? // POLITICS // Frank Coleman : Picking the "Locke" of‘Nature’s Nation": The Triumphal Construction of Nature Meets the International Community // Jens Ivo Engels : The West German Environmental Movement During the 1970s // John Hausdoerffer ...121 : Giving Up Dominion: Rethinking Nature and Freedom in Jeffersonian Political Thought // Timothy W. Luke ...126 : From "Nature in the Raw" to a "Processed World" Changing Modes of Managerialism in the Modern "Resourcification" of Nature // Simone Neri Serneri ...132 : Politics and culture of the Italian environmental movement in the 1970s // Brendan Prendiville ...136 : Environmentalism in France & Britain during the 1970s // Frank Uekötter ...140 : The Nazis and the Environment: What Is the Problem? //
COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL // Maitseo Bolaane ...146 : History of Tsetse Fly (Trypanosomiasis) control and its impact on the wildlife conservation in Botswana: 1930s-1960s // Karen Brown ...150 : Trees and Beasts: European Approaches to South Africa’s Sylvan Environment in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries // Jacobus A. du Pisani ...154 : Environmental history, remote sensing and change detection: an interdisciplinary approach to the study of land degradation // Anu Eskonheimo ...160 : Gender-Based Conceptions of Land Degradation and Rehabilitation // Daniel Gilfoyle ...163 : Explaining lamziekte’: Stock Disease, Environment and Veterinary Science in Southern Africa, c. 1880-1920 // Minna Hares ...167 : Understanding the Language of Nature - Forest Conservation by Communities in Northern Thailand // LynWaymouth ...170 : Whakapapa at the Environmental Interface: Maintaining a Grasp on the Environment through Indigenous Knowledge // URBAN // Sabine Barles, Laurence Lestel ...176 : The nitrogen question: urbanisation, industrialisation and river quality, Paris (France), second half of the 19th century // Charles E. Closmann ...180 : The Currency of Contamination: Industrial Wastewater and the German Hyperinflation in Hamburg, Germany // Florian Ruhland ...183 : Water supply in Prague and Nuremberg in pre-industrial times on the interface between urban environmental history and urban historical geography // Anton Shkaruba ...186 : System analysis of the urban historical dynamics: application of cemetery studies // FOREST HISTORY // Carlos Aguiar ...192 : A brief history of natural forests in northern Portugal // Amélia Aguiar Andrade ...196 : The King and the Forest in Medieval Portugal: a relationship of power and benefit // Sari Autio-Sarasmo ...199 : Soviet Economic Policy and Silviculturein the Northern Forests in the 1930s //
Elisabeth Johann ...202 : More about diversity in European forests: the interrelation between human behaviour forestry and nature conservation at the turn of the 19th century // David Moon ...206 : Were the Steppes ever Forested? Science, Economic Development, and Identity in the Russian Empire in the 19,h Century // Orlando Rodrigues ...210 : The tragedy of the extinguished commons: public forest and land property rights in the North of Portugal // Gloria Sanz Lafuente ...213 : Nature, Economy and Nationalism: Forest Engineers and the Protection of the Forest during Franco’s Dictatorship 1939-1960 // LAND USE CHANGES // Ivan Bičík, Leoš Jeleček ...224 : Long Term Research of LUCC in Czechia 1845-2000 // Xavier Cussó, Ramon Garrabou, Enric Tello ...232 : Energy Flows, Land Use and Landscape Change in an organic Advanced Agriculture: the Catalan Vallčs County in 1860/70 // Matej Gabrovec, Franci Petek ...237 : Changes in Land Use in the Border Zone of Slovenia and Austria - the Case of the Svecinske Gorice Hills // Manuel Gonzalez de Molina, Antonio Ortega Santos ...242 : Common Goods in Historical Perspective: The Spanish Case // Pavel Chromý ...246 : Memory of Landscape and Regional Identity: Potential for Regional Development of Peripheral Regions // Leoš Jeleček, Miroslav Marada, Jan Kabrda ...257 : Transport Infrastructure and LUCC: a Case Study of Czechia in 19’b and 20,h Centrury // Ferenc Kovács, János Rakonczai ...263 : Analysis of the 200-year Environmental Changes of a Strictly Protected Area in the Kiskunság National Park, Hungary // Petr Mareš, Premysl Štych ...269 : Evaluation of historical changes of Land-use in Czechia exemplified on selected study areas // Eva Pauditšová ...276 : Old maps - a basis for the observation of transformations in the landscape structure (A model territory: the Nová Bana settlement, Slovakia) //
Katarina Pavlíčková, Peter Spišiak ...280 : The Historical Aspects of Ecological Agriculturein the Slovak Republic // Jiří Riezner ...284 : Agriculture and cultural landscape over centuries: a case study from the Jeseníky Mts. foothills, Czech Republic // Lenka Uhlířová ...289 : Historical Landscape on the early maps - source of information for the natural and cultural heritage conservation. Comparative study of the First Military Survey of the Austrian Monarchy and the Roy Map of Scotland // MISCELLANEA // J. Donald Hughes ...294 : Are There Common Themes in World Environmental History? // Florin Žigrai ...299 : Position, meaning and tasks of meta-environmental history -Some meta-scientific remarks // Guillaume Vera-Navas ...308 : The first report to the Club of Rome: how it came about and its international repercussions // Tina Schmid, Ulrik Lohm ...311 : The spatial imprint of changing consumption patterns during 130 years // Fredrik Björk : Not a Sweet Story. The Beet-Sugar Conquest of Sweden 1875-1940 // Harri Siiskonen : The breakthrough of chemical crop-protection in Finnish and Swedish farming // Gerhard A. Stadler ...321 : Oil mining in the cultural landscape of Lower Austria // Anna-Katharina Woebse ...325 : "The matter is really of international concern ..." The environmental history of the League of Nations, 1920-1946 // Jiří Woitsch ...328 : Potash industry in Bohemia in the 8’? century // Dmitri Starostine ...335 : Environment Imagined and Real: Waterscapes and Their Representations in Medieval Hagiography // Dolores Wilson ...339 : Implications of Feeding Pigs in the Anglo-Norman Forest // Tomomi Hotaka ...342 : Tropical landscapes in German cities: A study on European modern urban culture of greenery //
Aud Mikkelsen Tretvik ...346 : Exploitation of material and immaterial resources Complementarity between districts ofTrondelag (Mid-Norway) 1850-1920 // Stéphane Castonguay ...349 : Standardising Diversity: International phytopathological conventions and the entomological unification of the world, 1878-1929 // Johannes Klose ...352 : The Socio-economic Significance of Birds in Brandenburg (Germany): Towards the Perception of Biodiversity in the last Three Hundred Years