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Index List of Contributors 0 agriculture, 13, 16–17, 19, 22–23, 29–43, 109–10, 136, 138, 151; productivity of, 30, 32, 109–11, 136, 146–47 Allmen, Peter von, 103 Andersen, Arne, 94 animal husbandry, 17, 26, 30, 35, 138 Anthropocene, 10, 92 Aral Sea, 65, 153–54 Archer Daniels Midland, 25–27 Argentina, 26 Australia, 14–16, 26–27, 59, 67, 97, 150 Bacon, Francis, 132–33, 141 Bagwell, Philip, 113 Bairoch, Paul, 109 Beck, Ulrich, 120–21 Bennett, Hugh, 133 Binswanger, Hans-Christoph, 94 Black Death, 24 Blass, Simcha, 152 Bonne, Georg, 142 Borchardt, Knut, 99–100 Borscheid, Peter, 113 Braudel, Fernand, 11 Brazil, 25 Bretton Woods, 99–100 Brown, Lester, 158 Brunhes, Jean, 134 Bureau of Reclamation, 34, 62, 140, 142–43 California, 27, 35, 38–40, 85, 135 Canada, 26, 149 carbon dioxide, 21, 90–91, 103 Caribbean, the, 7, 25–26, 29–31 Carson, Rachel, 135 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 117 Charcoal, 20–26, 45, 48–49, 51 China, 20, 22–23, 25, 67, 69, 146, 158–60 cholera, 76, 142 cities, 13, 16, 20–21, 23, 28, 72–89; agriculture, 21; climate change, 21; effects on environment , 72, 77; migration to, 20; mortality rates, 20, 79–80; natural disasters, 74, 89; pollution, 76, 81, 83–84; population of, 73, 78, 81, 84, 86–87 Civilian Conservation Corps, 37 Clean Air Acts, 85 Clean Water Act (1972), 85 climate change, 2, 7, 11, 15–16, 21, 58, 106, 117, 128, 145 coal, 26, 49, 53, 76, 83, 103–4, 134, 137, 140 Columbian Exchange, 6, 13, 23–25, 28 COMECON, 104 Crafts, Nick, 96, 99 Crosby, Alfred, 6, 23 Crutzen, Paul, 10, 92 dams, 62–66, 69, 81 De Grazia, Victoria, 106 deforestation, 25, 27 DeGolyer, Lee Everett, 101 Denmark, 110, 145 desertification, 4, 11, 146–60. See also Dust Bowl Diamond, Jared, 147 Dienel, Hans Luidger, 133 disease, 15–19, 22–24, 26, 56, 76, 79, 142 domestication, 15–20, 22–24, 28 Dongtan, 69–70 Dregne, Harold, 157 Duchess of Portland, Winifred, 138 Dust Bowl, 9, 36, 43, 55, 62, 140, 149 Egypt, 26, 150 Eisenhower, Dwight, 103 Elvin, Mark, 22 0 i n d e x England, 20, 54, 59, 138, 149, environmental movement, 5, 11, 84, 109, 111, 119, 145; and history, 119–20; impact of, 128; features of, 124; non-state actors, 127, 138; politicization, 125–27; science, 125, 128; as turning point, 119–20, 123 Environmental Protection Agency, 85 Ethiopia, 150–51 evolution, 14–15, 18 famine, 136, 148, 151 fertilizer, 27, 30, 38, 75, 109–10, 112, 136, 152 fire, 13–14, 28 Floh, Hermann, 91 forest, 7, 22, 44–54, 128; change over time, 44–45, 51–52; commercialization, 49, 140; economics of, 48–49 forestry, 7, 45, 47, 58, 67, 128, 140; effect on forests, 52, 59; origins of, 47–48, 50, 59; in twentieth century, 51; Forestry Management Act (UK, 1919), 61 fossil fuels, 7, 13, 25–28, 58, 83, 97, 111–12, 114, 134; consequences of, 117; effects on cities, 26; and labor, 26; price, 92, 100, 105. See also coal; oil Fourastié, Jean, 96 France, 7, 38, 50, 53, 59, 68, 96, 103, 107, 110, 112, 116, 127 Friedrich, Caspar David, 59 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 99 genetics, 37, 40–41, 130, 135 Giddens, Anthony, 120 Gingrich, Simone, 104 Glacken, Clarence, 60 globalization, 7, 11, 25, 54, 56, 116 greenhouse effect. See climate change Haagen-Smit, Arie, 85 Hambach Castle, 44–46 Hatch Act (1887), 33, 40 Haustein, Sabine, 112 Hays, Samuel, 84, 140 Heymann, Mathias, 129 Hicks, John, 105 higher education, 32–33, 99 Hobsbawm, Eric, 99, 111 Homeland Protection League, 65–66 Homestead Act (1862), 33 horticulture, 16, 32 hunter-gatherer, 19–20, 22 Iliffe, John, 22 India, 22–23, 26, 56, 59, 64, 67, 69, 140, 150 industrialization, 3, 5, 8, 25–26, 38, 50, 72, 92, 95, 117, 123, 141 Interstate Highway Act (1956), 86 Iran, 101 Iraq, 27, 101 irrigation, 16, 21, 33, 38, 64, 152–53 Israel, 138, 147, 152–53, 160 Italy, 113, 144 Jaffe, Adam, 105 Japan, 25, 96–97, 100 Josephson, Paul, 62–63 Kenya, 150, 152 Koch, Egmont, 144 König, Wolfgang, 94 Krausmann, Fridolin, 97, 104, 110 Kupper, Patrick, 94, 124 Kuskova, Petra, 104 lactose tolerance, 18 language, 13–14, 28 Liebig, Justus von, 32 livestock. See animal husbandry Lomborg, Bjørn, 122, 145 Lorenz, Konrad, 126 Lundgreen, Peter, 139 Maier, Charles, 8, 56, 58, 61 malaria, 18–19 Mannion...

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