History And Sustainability: Environmental History And Education For Sustainable Development

6th Sep – 7th Sep 2007 00:00

Supported by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics & Archaeology and the Centre for History and Economics.

The idea of sustainability is founded on continuity through time, and draws us immediately into historical perspectives. Yet historians have not, as yet, contributed relatively little to debates about sustainable development, or examine in detail the origins and range of historical ideas of sustainability.

Following the discussion in March 2007 on Environmental History jointly sponsored by the University of Stirling and the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, this one-day conference will provide a number of perspectives on the contribution historians can make to contemporary debates about sustainability, examining the following themes:

1. International developments in the teaching of environmental history.
2. Current directions and debates within environmental history
3. Historical ideas of sustainability
4. The role of history in educating for sustainable development in higher and pre-university education.

Contributors include Vinita Damodaran, Stephen Mosley and Paul Warde on current debates in environmental history; Poul Holm and Sverker Sörlin on developments in research and teaching in the field; Melissa Lane on sustainability in Western thought; Brigid Hains on sustainability in Arctic thought; Jose Augusto Padua on slavery and ecological change in Latin America; Libby Robin on new agendas for history's contribution to sustainability research; Rupert Brakspear on history’s contribution to pre-university education for sustainability.
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