Environment One history

In 1972 he introduced the term “environmental history” in an article in the Pacific Historical Review.

In the United States environmental history gained a firm institutionalised base which is reflected in the fact that the annual meetings of the American Society for Environmental History, established in 1975, attracts over 500 participants.

The 1984 Bhopal disaster in India vividly illustrates how a failure to manage environmental knowledge can impact a multinational’s bottom line for a long time.

Starting around 1985, the manufacturing of many products was transformed, as a mixture of the new communications technologies and policy changes permitted the redistribution of various manufacturing tasks around the world.

In 1986, the Dutch foundation for the history of environment and hygiene Net Werk was founded.

Donald Worster has recognised three clusters of issues to be addressed by environmental historians (1988: 289-308). The first cluster deals with the human intellectual realm consisting of perceptions, ethics, laws, myth and the other mental constructions related to the natural world.

Article "Origins of the EPA" in the Spring 1992 issue of The Guardian - provides background on conservation, ecology and early environmental movements, the first Earth Day, and the establishment of EPA.

Background: The Environmental History Timeline originally appeared in Mass Media and Environmental Conflict, a book written by Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik published by Sage in 1996.

The book won an American Library Association “Choice” award as one of the best academic books of 1997.

Since 1999, historians have made some progress in integrating business and environmental history.

In 2004, the Latina American and Caribbean Society for Environmental History (Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental in Spanish and SOLCHA for short) was established.

Jan K. Oosterhoek, in a 2005 essay “What is Environmental History?” distinguished geography and ecology as 19th century origins of environmental history and provided a very useful list of academic journals and links to national and international organizations.

A very significant development and broadening of the field was the creation of the Rachel Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) in 2009.

In late 2014 the Jaarboek was succeeded by a new open access Journal: The Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES).

Over the past decade, experts have discussed the offshore technologies so closely associated with accelerating climate change—namely, offshore oil and gas drilling—as tools for climate action, as was the case at a United Nations roundtable in April 2019.