Some Insights into the Environmental History of the Dinaric Karst

Abstract

AbstractThe explanations of the terms environmental history and karst are followed by an introduction to the Dinaric Karst and a selection of groundbreaking examples of the early intellectual history of karst research in this environmental macroregion, placing the Dinaric Karst on the European intellectual history map. Then, the scope and contents of the volume Environmental Histories of the Dinaric Karst are outlined. The research presented in this monograph is based on several classic research topics of the interactions between human society and the rest of nature in karst, but it implements fresh, modern environmental history approaches.