Author: Worster, Donald

Source: Environment and History, Volume 2, Number 1, February 1996 , pp. 3-14(12)

Publisher: White Horse Press

Abstract:

The gap between the sciences and the humanities persists in our intellectual life, with significant consequences. The new field of environmental history represents an opportunity to bridge that gap, since it requires historians to become more conversant with the environmental sciences and apply their insights to the study of the past. I give examples of where that conversation has been has been helpful in rewriting history. However, the scientists are in need of the historians and humanists more than they commonly acknowledge. Environmental problems have their source in human culture, and to solve those problems we need the insights of the humanities.

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Keywords: sciences; humanities; two cultures; environmental history

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734096779522446

Publication date: 1996-02-01

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