The environmental history of the Catalan-speaking lands

Abstract

Environmental history is a discipline with its own paradigms and methodology that is concerned with studying the coevolutionary relations between the environment and the social system. This article offers a historiographic sketch of the environmental history of the Catalan area. Based on a review of the scholarly literature, this article identifies the main themes, avenues of research and analytical keys and evaluates the way that the complexity of socioenvironmental conflicts has been explored.

Keywords

• historiography
• environmental history
• environmental humanities
• environment
• ecology
• nature.