Uwe Lübken
Biographic Data
| ID | 4245989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uwe Lübken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uwe |
| FAMILY NAME | Lübken |
| SIGNATURE | LÜBKEN U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9614-2887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Martin Melosi
the historical importance of water.Neither does this reviewer have to be convinced that water has been a major force in many developments and events of the past that historians better reckon with than ignore.And still, while browsing through the 281 pages, reading the 25 chapters and looking at the 36 illustrations in Martin Melosi's magnificent Water in North American History, the ubiquity, the significance, and the multi-faceted nature of water…
“Down Beside where the Waters Flow
Over the past three decades, rivers have become a fascinating and popular subject of scholarly interest, not only in the field of environmental history, where river histories have developed into a distinct subgenre, but also in the emerging field of environmental humanities. In this scholarship, rivers have often been reconceptualized as socio-natural sites where human and non-human actors interact with the natural world, generating complex legac…
Histories of the Unprecedented
While the speed of current climatic changes is unprecedented, their ramifications are not. Floods and droughts, sea-level rise, advancing glaciers, and desertification do have a history, and the same is true for the social causes and aftermaths of such extreme natural events. Therefore, history provides a fertile field for the analysis of how societies have dealt with severe environmental changes, and the analysis of past extreme natural events y…
Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
Öl und Souveränität
The oil crisis of 1973/74 has become an integral part of recent attempts to historicize the 1970s and especially to analyse the transformative character of this decade. The oil embargo of the Arab OPEC members was cause and indicator of such fundamental changes as the shift from a bilateral to a multilateral international system, the rise of a postindustrial society and the replacement of rational economic planning by a new focus on pragmatic pol…
Shrinking, sinking, resurfacing
Managing the Unknown
Managing the Unknown
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, e…
Flammable Cities
Flammable Cities
Introduction: Flammable Cities Part 1: Cities as Fire Regimes 1 Jan van der Heyden and the Origins of Modern Firefighting Art and Technology in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Susan Donahue Kuretsky 2 Governance, Arson, and Firefighting in Edo, 1600-1868 Jordan Sand and Steve Wills 3 Taming Fire in Valpara\u00edso, Chile, 1840s-1870s Samuel J. Martland 4 The Burning of a Modern City? Istanbul as Perceived by the Agents of the Sun Fire Office, 1865-…
Chasing a Ghost? Environmental Change and Migration in History
Displacement, Migration, and Environmental Change. An Interview with Anthony Oliver-Smith
Uncertain Environments
Natural catastrophes are not just sudden events; they are also embedded in historical patterns of vulnerability and resilience. In modern societies, risk is one of the most important principles applied to the challenges that natural hazards pose and insurance is an ever more important tool of risk management. The contributions to this special issue of Environment and History all stress the fact, however, that environmental risk is not simply a ph…
Uncertain Environments
Natural catastrophes are not just sudden events; they are also embedded in historical patterns of vulnerability and resilience. In modern societies, risk is one of the most important principles applied to the challenges that natural hazards pose and insurance is an ever more important tool of risk management. The contributions to this special issue of Environment and History all stress the fact, however, that environmental risk is not simply a ph…
Uncertain Environments
Natural catastrophes are not just sudden events; they are also embedded in historical patterns of vulnerability and resilience. In modern societies, risk is one of the most important principles applied to the challenges that natural hazards pose and insurance is an ever more important tool of risk management. The contributions to this special issue of Environment and History all stress the fact, however, that environmental risk is not simply a ph…
Flammable Cities
Flammable Cities
Introduction: Flammable Cities Part 1: Cities as Fire Regimes 1 Jan van der Heyden and the Origins of Modern Firefighting Art and Technology in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Susan Donahue Kuretsky 2 Governance, Arson, and Firefighting in Edo, 1600-1868 Jordan Sand and Steve Wills 3 Taming Fire in Valpara\u00edso, Chile, 1840s-1870s Samuel J. Martland 4 The Burning of a Modern City? Istanbul as Perceived by the Agents of the Sun Fire Office, 1865-…
Chasing a Ghost? Environmental Change and Migration in History
Displacement, Migration, and Environmental Change. An Interview with Anthony Oliver-Smith
Managing the Unknown
Managing the Unknown
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, e…
Shrinking, sinking, resurfacing
Öl und Souveränität
The oil crisis of 1973/74 has become an integral part of recent attempts to historicize the 1970s and especially to analyse the transformative character of this decade. The oil embargo of the Arab OPEC members was cause and indicator of such fundamental changes as the shift from a bilateral to a multilateral international system, the rise of a postindustrial society and the replacement of rational economic planning by a new focus on pragmatic pol…
Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
Histories of the Unprecedented
While the speed of current climatic changes is unprecedented, their ramifications are not. Floods and droughts, sea-level rise, advancing glaciers, and desertification do have a history, and the same is true for the social causes and aftermaths of such extreme natural events. Therefore, history provides a fertile field for the analysis of how societies have dealt with severe environmental changes, and the analysis of past extreme natural events y…
“Down Beside where the Waters Flow
Over the past three decades, rivers have become a fascinating and popular subject of scholarly interest, not only in the field of environmental history, where river histories have developed into a distinct subgenre, but also in the emerging field of environmental humanities. In this scholarship, rivers have often been reconceptualized as socio-natural sites where human and non-human actors interact with the natural world, generating complex legac…
Martin Melosi
the historical importance of water.Neither does this reviewer have to be convinced that water has been a major force in many developments and events of the past that historians better reckon with than ignore.And still, while browsing through the 281 pages, reading the 25 chapters and looking at the 36 illustrations in Martin Melosi's magnificent Water in North American History, the ubiquity, the significance, and the multi-faceted nature of water…
Geography (7 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)