Contents
Part I Basics, Legacy and Historical Purposes
Environmental History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Carsten Hobohm
Nature-Culture Dichotomy and Environmental Consciousness:
Do We Fear the Right Things? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Carsten Hobohm
History of Environmental Communication and Education . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Christine Börtitz and Carsten Hobohm
Part II Recent Environmental Conditions, Change and Challenges
Resources for Humans, Plants and Animals: Who Is the Ruler
of the Driver? And: Can Resource Use Explain Everything? . . . . . . . . . 79
Carsten Hobohm and Sula E. Vanderplank
A Framework for Evaluation of Normative Solutions to Environmental
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Karl Christoph Reinmuth
Environmental Evaluation between Economics and Ethics:
An Argument for Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Konrad Ott and Karl Christoph Reinmuth
Environmental Indicators and Biodiversity Conservation Strategies . . . 159
Carsten Hobohm
Change: Risks and Predictability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
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