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This has lead to both the resilience and the damage of the natural systems. Scientists, scholars and historians studying the many fields on Environmental History usually have a better and environmentally-friendly future for humans as goal. The first WCEH, (short for the World Congress for Environmental History) brought together a large number of scholars (around 600) originating from over 50 countries all around the world.
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His congress aimed to provide these scholars with a unique opportunity to share their knowledge and thus create the most overarching picture, the first of the kind, of the history of the interactions between the environment and humans. These interactions exist on several scales, with effects ranging from the local to the global environment.
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Ecological issues have become all the more important throughout the last decades. People are nowadays aware of the fact that the planet we all live on will change in a negative way if we do not change their consumer behaviour. Many companies are now trying to catch their clients’ eye by producing eco-riendly and nonpolluting more »
There are hardly any universities in the world that don’t offer any kind of possibility of studying abroad. Students usually jump at those offers, because they are interested in making new experiences and dream about living in Paris, going to Berlin or being able to stay in London. Students are generally highly recommended to grasp more »
The study of anthropology is the science of human beings in all its aspects, both physical (evolutionary, anatomical, , physiological, morphological, etc.) and cultural (geographical, psychological, socio-religious, etc.). Anthropology defines humanity through a combination of several various human and natural sciences. The term anthropology comes from two Greek words, anthropos meaning man (in the generic more »
The study of geology, is the science which deals with the composition, structure, history and the evolution of the inner and outer layers of the earth, and the different processes that shape it. Geology is an important discipline among the sciences of the Earth. Associated with radiometric dating methods and studies of meteorites, it helped more »
The history of the human environment or environmental history is a subdiscipline of history, close to historical biogeography. In scientific circles we talk about ecology as retrospective. The environmental history studies the history of relations between human societies, nature and the biophysical environment. Specifically, these studies focus on ideas developed, to the knowledge of nature more »
In biology and ecology, the term applies to any endangered species that could disappear. Species are declared endangered if they meet specific criteria (habitat loss, significant decline in its population, genetic erosion, over fishing or hunting etc..). These criteria are generally established or validated by the IUCN, and help to refine the risk of extinction more »
Dinosaurs (Greek deinos, sauros terrible lizard) form a highly diverse variety of diapsids vertebrates, currently represented by birds. They are oviparous archosaurs with a common upright posture and sharing a number of physical similarities such as the absence of a postfrontal in the skull and the presence of at least three sacral vertebrae. Present from more »
