Nature and Environment
Nature and Environment This article approaches the communication space and social construct of Europe from the perspective of environmental history and traces the commonalities and differences in the interaction between humans and the environment. It is also a call for an interdisciplinary and an international environmental history. The diversity of nature and the environment in Europe is examined in various fields. With its discussion of spaces, climate and resources, the first section deals with natural environments, before anthropogenic environments are added to the discussion in the second section, and then the connections between the fundamental categories of nature / environment, rule, economy and culture are outlined in the third section. The final section presents general environmental historical periodizations in relation to European history. There has been intensive historiographical research on nature and the environment in Europe for many years. It is no longer possibl...