Place and Nature
Essays in Russian Environmental History
Published on 1. February 2021
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-1-912186-16-7 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring Russia's Environmental History
This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature' in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them. Through case studies of specific places in northwestern Russia, for example the Solovetskie Islands, the Urals, Siberia, in particular Lake Baikal, and the Russian Far East, the book highlights the importance of local environments and the specificities of individual places and spaces in understanding the human-nature nexus. This focus is accentuated by the fact that the authors have considerable, first-hand experience of the places they write about that complements and supplements their research in textual sources.
This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature' in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them. Through case studies of specific places in northwestern Russia, for example the Solovetskie Islands, the Urals, Siberia, in particular Lake Baikal, and the Russian Far East, the book highlights the importance of local environments and the specificities of individual places and spaces in understanding the human-nature nexus. This focus is accentuated by the fact that the authors have considerable, first-hand experience of the places they write about that complements and supplements their research in textual sources.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Knapwell
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
936 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912186-16-7 (9781912186167)
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Place and Nature
Essays in Russian Environmental History
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Content
TABLE OF CONTENTS
David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova and Julia Lajus
Place and Nature: An Introduction
PART I. THE NORTHWEST AND THE EUROPEAN NORTH OF RUSSIA 2. Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus 'The Space of Blue and Gold': The Nature and Environment of Solovki in History and Heritage.
3. Andy Bruno Polluted Pearl of the North: Lake Imandra in the Anthropocene
4. Alan Roe, The Vision and the Reality in the Taiga of Karelia and the Arkhangel'sk Oblast': Oleg Cherviakov and Vodlozero National Park 5. Robert Dale, 'There, Where They Have Grown Accustomed to Flooding': Comparing the St Petersburg Flood of November 1824 and the Leningrad Flood of September 1924
PART II. BEING THERE: PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS
6. Nicholas B. Breyfogle Faith and Nature on Solovki
7. Catherine Evtuhov Industrial Heritage in the Urals
8. Bryce Stewart New Dams, Warming Waters, Forest Fires: Lake Baikal in Peril
9. David Moon A Shaggy-Bear Story: An Environmental History from a Remote Region
PART III. SIBERIA AND THE PACIFIC FAR EAST
10. Alexandra Bekasova and Ekaterina Kalemeneva Trans-Siberian 'Landscapes of Transportation' through the Lens of Travel Guidebooks in Late Imperial Russia
11. Arkady Kalikhman and Tatiana Kalikhman The Environmental History of Lake Baikal
12. Nicholas B. Breyfogle The Origins of the Barguzin Nature Reserve 13. Elena Kochetkova Baikal Waters: Industrial Development and Institutional Debates, 1950s-1970s
14. Mark Sokolsky Hunting, Civil Society and Wildlife Conservation in the Russian Far East
David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova and Julia Lajus
Place and Nature: An Introduction
PART I. THE NORTHWEST AND THE EUROPEAN NORTH OF RUSSIA 2. Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus 'The Space of Blue and Gold': The Nature and Environment of Solovki in History and Heritage.
3. Andy Bruno Polluted Pearl of the North: Lake Imandra in the Anthropocene
4. Alan Roe, The Vision and the Reality in the Taiga of Karelia and the Arkhangel'sk Oblast': Oleg Cherviakov and Vodlozero National Park 5. Robert Dale, 'There, Where They Have Grown Accustomed to Flooding': Comparing the St Petersburg Flood of November 1824 and the Leningrad Flood of September 1924
PART II. BEING THERE: PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS
6. Nicholas B. Breyfogle Faith and Nature on Solovki
7. Catherine Evtuhov Industrial Heritage in the Urals
8. Bryce Stewart New Dams, Warming Waters, Forest Fires: Lake Baikal in Peril
9. David Moon A Shaggy-Bear Story: An Environmental History from a Remote Region
PART III. SIBERIA AND THE PACIFIC FAR EAST
10. Alexandra Bekasova and Ekaterina Kalemeneva Trans-Siberian 'Landscapes of Transportation' through the Lens of Travel Guidebooks in Late Imperial Russia
11. Arkady Kalikhman and Tatiana Kalikhman The Environmental History of Lake Baikal
12. Nicholas B. Breyfogle The Origins of the Barguzin Nature Reserve 13. Elena Kochetkova Baikal Waters: Industrial Development and Institutional Debates, 1950s-1970s
14. Mark Sokolsky Hunting, Civil Society and Wildlife Conservation in the Russian Far East