Paul Warde
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 972289 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Warde |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Warde |
| ASSINATURA | WARDE P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9878-6643 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The great dispersal
This article presents a new way of understanding Global Environmental Governance (GEG), historically and functionally. We outline a revised analytical framing, which connects the post-WWII moment of early globalizing conservation with the intensifying attempts to govern the human-earth relationship through an ever-growing assemblage of governable environmental objects and their quantifiable indicators as proxies . Our argument is as follows: (1) …
The Enclosure of Knowledge
H. Spencer Banzhaf, Pricing the Priceless
This is an important book and one that comes, from this reviewer at least, highly recommended. Indeed, my major gripe is the subtitle, because this is not really a history of environmental economics, but is largely a history of the construction of the problems that would come to later define environmental economics, avant les mots—but none the worse for that. Relatively little is said about the field as it has vastly expanded in output since the …
Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings. A History of Environments and Environmentalisms
Etienne Benson’s new book is a very welcome addition to a still small but important area of scholarship: the history of the conceptualisation of environments and especially the environment, a topic, given its prevalence in modern political discourse, which has received surprisingly little study. This is, of course, a very large theme (both in terms of what ‘environment’ might embrace, and its multifaceted and multivalent uses), and Benson is righ…
Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy
This book is a very welcome addition to the environmental history of New England and, more broadly, as an ‘exploration of how the early modern revolution in world commerce transformed human and ecological relationships in the lands touched by European colonialism’. It sets out a case that fundamental changes in the land preceded the era of ‘improvement’ and industrialisation that came to the region in the late eighteenth century, and that the com…
Heat in a Cold Climate
This article examines the timing, scale and cause of transitions between different kinds of household energy use and especially heating in northern Sweden, with a focus on Norrbotten, between the late nineteenth century and 1970. It examines the related but separate histories of the adoption of new heating technologies, such as stoves and boilers, and the choice of fuels, such as firewood, coke, oil, and electricity, providing new data on the sca…
Thomas Riis, Crail and its Fisheries 1550–1600
Forum
Trees in England
Trade and overcoming land constraints in British industrialization
Land was an unambiguous constraint for growth in the pre-industrial period. In Britain it was overcome partly through the transition from traditional land-based goods to coal (vertical expansion) and partly through accessing overseas land, primarily from colonies (horizontal expansion). Kenneth Pomeranz suggested that horizontal expansion may have outweighed vertical expansion in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Taking a more complete…
Firewood consumption and energy transition
This article surveys current literature on historical wood fuel use in North America and Europe. It focuses in particular on the quality of national-level data, highlighting and examining the different methods employed by official bodies to collect this; and in turn, the different assumptions used by historians to use partial data in models to estimate overall consumption. Problematic differences are revealed, along with the likely over-estimatio…
The Invention of Sustainability
The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how sustainability was closely linked to hopes for growth, and the destiny of expanding European states, from the sixteenth century. Weaving together aspirations for power, for economic development and ag…
Trees, Trade and Textiles
This article charts the development of the trade in a key input into early modern British industry: potash, used as a source of alkali, predominantly in the making of soap for washing woollens, and the bleaching the linen. Although an essential intermediary input into the manufacturing processes through precursors to the modern chemical industry, this trade and its ecological impact have gone almost entirely unnoticed by historians. The article s…
The Future of Nature
This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy, and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity and sustainability from a global perspective, it explores the meaning of th…
International Trade and Energy Intensity During European Industrialization, 1870–1935
Previous research suggests that there is an inverted U-shape curve for energy intensity in the long-run for Western Europe with a peak in the early 20th century. This paper tests the hypothesis that the increase of German and British energy intensity was an effect from the concentration of heavy industrial production to these countries, although the consumption of a significant share of these goods took place elsewhere. We use an entirely new dat…
Peter M. Jones, Agricultural Enlightenment
Stratigraphy for the Renaissance
This article examines the short history of scientific decision-making and expertise in deliberations about the validity of the term 'Anthropocene' by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Contrary to fears that the Anthropocene debates constitute a politicisation of proper scientific practice, it argues that periodisation and categorisation in science (in stratigraphy, in this case) typically draws on expertise and information outside cor…
Local Places, Global Processes
Local Places, Global Processes
Kieko Matteson, Forests in Revolutionary France
Global Crisis or Global Coincidence
That the weather can influence events is old news, whether shaping military campaigns or as the cause of harvest failure. Equally, since ancient times patterns of weather distinct to particular places have been evoked as an explanation for ways of life, cultural, economic and political; in other words, arguing that society is in some form determined by ‘climate’ (probably originating in the Greek term for inclination, or, in other words, latitude…
Power to the People
Power to the People
This book examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century—fueled by coal and steam engines—redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map…
Power to the People
Cold comforts
The Invention of Sustainability
The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how sustainability was closely linked to hopes for growth, and the destiny of expanding European states, from the sixteenth century. Weaving together aspirations for power, for economic development and ag…
The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History
This essay argues that environmental history has not engaged as fully with social and political theory as it might, and that once it does, environmental historians will find that their concerns are, potentially, much closer to the mainstream of thought in the social sciences and humanities than they might have expected. In fact, environmental history has the promise to be central to the most influential social thought in the academy and among pol…
The Invention of Sustainability
This essay attempts something a little peculiar: a study of the genesis of a concept within discourses which did not, in fact, use the word. This is at least true of “sustainability” in English. The emergence of the German equivalent, Nachhaltigkeit , which might also be expressed by the idea of “lasting-ness”, is, however, usually dated to the use of the word nachhalthende by Hanns Carl von Carlowitz in his Sylvicultura oeconomica of 1713, the f…
Forum
Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1815–1913
This article explores the proposition that a reason for high agricultural productivity in the early nineteenth century was relatively high energy availability from draught animals. The article is based on the collection of extensive new data indicating different trends in draught power availability and the efficiency of its use in different countries of Europe. This article shows that the proposition does not hold, and demonstrates that, although…
Deforesting the Earth
1Pembroke College, Cambridge Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis Michael Williams Chicago IL U. of Chicago P. 2003 xxvi + 689 £ 49
Trade and overcoming land constraints in British industrialization
Land was an unambiguous constraint for growth in the pre-industrial period. In Britain it was overcome partly through the transition from traditional land-based goods to coal (vertical expansion) and partly through accessing overseas land, primarily from colonies (horizontal expansion). Kenneth Pomeranz suggested that horizontal expansion may have outweighed vertical expansion in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Taking a more complete…
Imposition, Emulation and Adaptation
New institutional approaches to the commons have seen a proliferation of work in recent years that has overturned stereotypes of 'tragedy' and mismanagement. Much of this work remains centred, however, on the fortunes of individual commons and relates changes in management to local challenges and experiences. This article uses a large sample of by-laws from commons in south-western Germany to show how regulation has emerged as a complex historica…
Looking Backwards into a Mediterranean Edge Environment
We examine the evolution from the mid-nineteenth century to the present of the cultural landscape in two Catalan townships that jointly constitute an edge environment between Mediterranean plain and mountain. This environmental edge has changed over time, from a border between an agricultural plain confronting an area of forestry and livestock-raising in the mid-nineteenth century, to a limit of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region confronting two '…
Trees, Trade and Textiles
This article charts the development of the trade in a key input into early modern British industry: potash, used as a source of alkali, predominantly in the making of soap for washing woollens, and the bleaching the linen. Although an essential intermediary input into the manufacturing processes through precursors to the modern chemical industry, this trade and its ecological impact have gone almost entirely unnoticed by historians. The article s…
Stratigraphy for the Renaissance
This article examines the short history of scientific decision-making and expertise in deliberations about the validity of the term 'Anthropocene' by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Contrary to fears that the Anthropocene debates constitute a politicisation of proper scientific practice, it argues that periodisation and categorisation in science (in stratigraphy, in this case) typically draws on expertise and information outside cor…
Global Crisis or Global Coincidence
That the weather can influence events is old news, whether shaping military campaigns or as the cause of harvest failure. Equally, since ancient times patterns of weather distinct to particular places have been evoked as an explanation for ways of life, cultural, economic and political; in other words, arguing that society is in some form determined by ‘climate’ (probably originating in the Greek term for inclination, or, in other words, latitude…
Subsistence and sales
This article examines the engagement of peasant cultivators with the grain market in Germany in the seventeenth century. It demonstrates a differentiated propensity to sell in regard to different grains; a preference among cultivators for retaining subsistence foodstuffs; the importance of payment in kind in the labour market; and the lack of a clear-cut social structural divide between grain sellers and buyers among those who cultivate arable la…
Law, the ‘commune’, and the distribution of resources in early modern German state formation
This article examines a series of disputes that developed among villagers in the Duchy of Württemberg in south-west Germany during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, disputes that were appealed to higher courts and became a matter for decision by the Duchy's ruling council. The disputes concerned the allocation of free wood from communally owned woodlands, and the size of shares permitted to particular groups, but developed into argum…
The origins and development of institutional welfare support in early modern Württemberg, c.1500–1700
This article examines the development of formal poor-relief provision across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in rural Germany, through a case study of a district of the Duchy of Württemberg. It presents a detailed picture of practices to support the poor, whether through payments and alms from the poor chest, institutions providing credit, common rights or village and town granaries. In building up a picture of institutional practice, it …
The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500-1850
The Management of Common Land in North West Europe, C. 1500-1850 (Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area, 8)
Comparing the historical commons of north west Europe. An introduction
Rüdiger Glaser, Klimageschichte Mitteleuropas. 1000 Jahre Wetter, Klima, Katastrophen
Law, the ‘commune’, and the distribution of resources in early modern German state formation
This article examines a series of disputes that developed among villagers in the Duchy of Württemberg in south-west Germany during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, disputes that were appealed to higher courts and became a matter for decision by the Duchy's ruling council. The disputes concerned the allocation of free wood from communally owned woodlands, and the size of shares permitted to particular groups, but developed into argum…
Deforesting the Earth
1Pembroke College, Cambridge Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis Michael Williams Chicago IL U. of Chicago P. 2003 xxvi + 689 £ 49
Subsistence and sales
This article examines the engagement of peasant cultivators with the grain market in Germany in the seventeenth century. It demonstrates a differentiated propensity to sell in regard to different grains; a preference among cultivators for retaining subsistence foodstuffs; the importance of payment in kind in the labour market; and the lack of a clear-cut social structural divide between grain sellers and buyers among those who cultivate arable la…
The Economics of Climate Change
There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth ́s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this challenge. The Stern Review is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue. It has been conduc…
The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History
This essay argues that environmental history has not engaged as fully with social and political theory as it might, and that once it does, environmental historians will find that their concerns are, potentially, much closer to the mainstream of thought in the social sciences and humanities than they might have expected. In fact, environmental history has the promise to be central to the most influential social thought in the academy and among pol…
The origins and development of institutional welfare support in early modern Württemberg, c.1500–1700
This article examines the development of formal poor-relief provision across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in rural Germany, through a case study of a district of the Duchy of Württemberg. It presents a detailed picture of practices to support the poor, whether through payments and alms from the poor chest, institutions providing credit, common rights or village and town granaries. In building up a picture of institutional practice, it …
Nature's End
Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, dive
Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1815–1913
This article explores the proposition that a reason for high agricultural productivity in the early nineteenth century was relatively high energy availability from draught animals. The article is based on the collection of extensive new data indicating different trends in draught power availability and the efficiency of its use in different countries of Europe. This article shows that the proposition does not hold, and demonstrates that, although…
The Invention of Sustainability
This essay attempts something a little peculiar: a study of the genesis of a concept within discourses which did not, in fact, use the word. This is at least true of “sustainability” in English. The emergence of the German equivalent, Nachhaltigkeit , which might also be expressed by the idea of “lasting-ness”, is, however, usually dated to the use of the word nachhalthende by Hanns Carl von Carlowitz in his Sylvicultura oeconomica of 1713, the f…
Modern Nature
A Forest on the Sea
Susan Reynolds, Before Eminent Domain
The Future of Nature
Future of Nature
Imposition, Emulation and Adaptation
New institutional approaches to the commons have seen a proliferation of work in recent years that has overturned stereotypes of 'tragedy' and mismanagement. Much of this work remains centred, however, on the fortunes of individual commons and relates changes in management to local challenges and experiences. This article uses a large sample of by-laws from commons in south-western Germany to show how regulation has emerged as a complex historica…
Umkampfte Walder
It is now some time since German history went back to the woods and began to prise apart the once-familiar ‘forest history’ as the foundation narrative of German scientific forestry (Forstwissenschaft). Much of this work has followed the pioneering trail of Joachim Radkau, appraising sceptically the idea that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century forestry was an early kind of ecological modernization, in which environmental experts took in hand the …
Power to the People
Power to the People
This book examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century—fueled by coal and steam engines—redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map…
Power to the People
Power to the People
"Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century--fueled by coal and steam engines--redrew the economic, social, and geo…
Traditional Sources
This chapter focuses on traditional energy sources in Europe. It first provides an overview of energy sources and energy consumption in premodern Europe before discussing organic energy sources and agricultures, looking in particular at food demand, a global perspective on the European agriculture, intensification and population, working animals, animal power, forests, firewood consumption, and coal and peat as fuels. The chapter proceeds by cons…
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