The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike.
_ Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day
_ Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times
_ Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
