"GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT" JOURNAL LAUNCHED!

"Global Environment - A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences" publishes articles, book reviews, interviews, scientific projects, political documents, bibliographies on the environment and world history, with special regard to the modern and contemporary ages. The journal’s main commitment is to bring together different areas of expertise in both natural and social sciences to help them to find a common language and a common perspective in the study of history 

The new a half-yearly journal Global Environment - A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences (www.globalenvironment.it) intends to act as a link for ongoing researches on the environment and world history, with special regard to the modern and contemporary ages. The journal’s main commitment should be to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to help them find a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. It is not a matter of abstractly proclaiming the need for interdisciplinarity; rather, there is a need for more and better contributions to our knowledge of the environment and its history employing a wide range of sources and methods. Our objective is to understand the processes which have lead to the present state of our environment, as well as differences between its state and management today and in past epochs. We intend to devote special attention, for example, to comparisons between the impact of human activities on resource reproduction dynamics and ecosystems at different historical times to define “historical sustainability thresholds”. For these reasons, both the editors and contributors of the journal, on one hand, and its public of readers, on the other, should include not only historians, but also ecologists, agronomists, experts in forest sciences, botanists, geologists, climatologists, economists, sociologists, urbanists, jurists, archaeologists, etc. Our purpose is to achieve an interdisciplinary approach taking account of the remarkable evolution of historical investigation over the last few decades as regards sources and methods. Today historians no longer rely merely on written documents; they also turn to material sources and biological archives, drawing from both the ecological sciences and the humanities, and sometimes effectively combining them.