Environmental History in Schools: The Anthropocene and Us

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI:10.3197/ge.2020.130209

Salvatore Adorno

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Abstract

This essay uses history as a key to access the environmental issue and the Anthropocene as a concept on which to hinge the history of the relationship between humankind and the environment, proposing it be used in education. It begins by analysing how environmental themes are dealt with in international school textbooks. It then moves on to the Anthropocene, the new age in which man candidates himself as a geological agent, dwelling on the theme of climate change and on the co-evolutionary process between social orders and natural systems. It offers the most recent historical readings of the Anthropocene, elaborating its dating and the numerous visions of the world the Anthropocene opens up. The essay ends with considerations on methodology and with some suggestions for teaching environmental history.

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学校环境史:人类世与我们

本文将历史作为了解环境问题的关键，并将人类世作为一个概念，在此基础上铰链人类与环境之间关系的历史，并建议将其用于教育。本文首先分析了国际学校教科书中如何处理环境主题。接着，它进入了“人类世”(Anthropocene)，在这个新时代，人类将自己作为地质代理人，专注于气候变化的主题，以及社会秩序与自然系统之间的共同进化过程。它提供了人类世的最新历史读物，详细阐述了人类世的年代，以及人类世为世界带来的众多愿景。文章最后对环境史教学方法进行了思考，并提出了一些建议。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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0.50

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25.00%

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.