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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 ground breaking 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 agricultural improvement, and ideas about forestry, climate, the sciences of the soil and of life itself, this book sets out how new knowledge and metrics led people to imagine both new horizons for progress, but also the possibility of collapse. In the nineteenth century, anxieties about sustainability, often driven by science, proliferated in debates about contemporary and historical empires and the American frontier. The fear of progress undoing itself confronted society with finding ways to live with and manage nature.

Human ecology --- Human ecology. --- Sustainability --- Sustainability. --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable development. --- History --- Europe. --- Développement durable --- Écologie humaine --- History. --- Histoire --- History of philosophy --- World history --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Histoire. --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Sustainability science --- Social ecology --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Environmental aspects --- Développement durable --- Écologie humaine

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We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still live in particular places. Our perceptions of change, and what kind of change might be for good or ill, are shaped by the interaction of localised experience and the wider forces of transformation. Local Places, Global Processes examines how these relationships have been shaped in Britain over time in three ways. First, through essays addressing influential ways of understanding and debating questions of ?the state of nature?. These are complemented by case studies on conservation, landscape change and management, and how perceptions of environmental change have emerged or been discarded over time. Chapters also draw on a series of site-based workshops that brought together historians, landscape managers and artists to discuss and reflect on particular sites: Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, owned by the National Trust and the first British nature reserve; the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Somerset, England?s first AONB and a landscape enriched by Romantic association; and the landscape of Kielder Water and Forest, a land of superlatives in Northumberland in north-eastern England ? the largest planted forest and artificial lake in northern Europe. The multi-disciplinary approach draws together the exchanges, artworks and writing assembled at these workshops and afterwards. This opens up how being in a place, and engaging with ideas attached to it, shape perceptions of the environment. It provides resources with which landscape managers can think about their tasks and engage various publics in discussion about future environments in light of these histories of place. Rather than a history of these three places, this is history written from them.

Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Environmental conditions --- History. --- Conditions environnementales --- Histoire --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Ecology. --- Real Estate --- General. --- Great Britain. --- Ecology --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales

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Energy industries --- Energy consumption --- Industrial revolution --- History --- Europe --- Economic conditions.

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History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe: North-West --- Commons --- Land tenure --- Village communities --- Terres de communage --- Propriété foncière --- Communautés rurales --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Rural conditions --- Conditions rurales --- Management --- -Commons --- -338 <09> --- Common lands --- Communal land --- Communal lands --- Public lands --- Real property --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Natural resources, Communal --- -History --- Economische geschiedenis --- Law and legislation --- #A0211H --- History. --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- Propriété foncière --- Communautés rurales --- 338 <09> --- Management&delete& --- Europe [Western ] --- Europe [Northern ] --- Commons - Europe, Western - Management - History --- Commons - Europe, Northern - Management - History --- Mer du Nord (région) --- Communaux --- Histoire rurale --- 1500-1850