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The Evolution of Environmental Sensitivity 1750–1950

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The Silent COUNTDOWN

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This chapter proposes to tackle the relationship between history and ecology (ecological history) from the angle of ideology and mentality. What interests me is the composition — the component parts — of sensitivity towards the environment. The current ecological movement, with us now for some decades, is the most recent manifestation. I am not, therefore, going to write a history of the protection of nature, I am going to seek to understand the evolution of ecological sensitivity. Respect for equilibrium in the natural environment is a concern which is the result of a long evolution. This is understandable, providing one restores nature to a place in a social context where it has both a symbolical and economical meaning.

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  1. Département d’Histoire Générale, Les Bastions, Université de Genève, 20. rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 1205, Genève, Switzerland

    F. Walter

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  1. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK

    Peter Brimblecombe

  2. Historisches Institut, Universität Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 4, 3012, Bern, Switzerland

    Christian Pfister

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Walter, F. (1990). The Evolution of Environmental Sensitivity 1750–1950. In: Brimblecombe, P., Pfister, C. (eds) The Silent COUNTDOWN. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75159-2_18

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