Mappae Mundi Humans And Their Habitats In A Longterm Socioecological Perspective Myths Maps And Models Johan Goudsblom by Johan Goudsblom, Bert De Vries 9781417521654, 9789053566558, 1417521651, 9053566554 instant download after payment.

The interaction between humans and their natural environment today is unprecedented in its scope and complexity, and recent scholarly research attests to the need for a multidisciplinary approach to fully study it. Mappae Mundi answers this call for a scholarly synthesis, illuminating dominant social trends affecting the relationship between human societies and the environment. Contributors discuss this relationship, and analyze several different possibilities for the future. Mappae Mundi will appeal to social scientists or anyone interested in the current and future consequences of our interaction with the natural environment.

This book is published on the occasion of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Holland Society of Arts and Sciences. The founders of our Institution were – as could be expected in the middle of the 18th century – deeply convinced that science, and perhaps also to some extent the arts, should play a significant role in the prosperous development of the town of Haarlem and its surroundings in Holland. Several comparable ‘Learned Societies’ already existed in Europe and America, but our Society was the first to be established in the Netherlands.