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A distinguished team of Western European scholars has written an advanced, full-length physical geography designed to be a state-of -the-art evaluation of the physical environment of Western Europe, being both retrospective and prospective in its perception of environmental change. The unique natural and regional environments of Western Europe are discussed, as well as the physical geographic framework of the region. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact and responses of human society on the physical environment of the region which is characterized by a very high population density.

Physical geography --- Geography --- Europe, Western --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Geography.

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Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include increasingly authoritarian forms of government that threaten the operations and very existence of civil society groups; the importation of locally-contested conservation and environmental programmes that were designed elsewhere; and a resurgence in cultural nationalism that prescribes and normalises exclusionary nation-building myths. This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of ‘environmentalism’ in the region. It asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been. Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment. It is valuable reading for human geographers, social and cultural historians, political ecologists, social movement and government scholars, political scientists, and specialists on Europe and European Union politics.

Environmental Studies --- sociology --- Environment --- economic --- politic --- Environmentalism --- Political ecology --- West Europe

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This important volume sheds light on a group of smaller European countries, often overlooked in economic discussions, that share a high degree of corporatism - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The contributors to this book investigate the various trajectories of these countries' economies, with particular consideration devoted to their welfare systems, corporate governance, and labor markets from the early 1990s to the economic crisis of 2008. Importantly, 'The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries' also investigates various nations as possible socio-economic models for pan-European capitalism.

Europe, Western --- Economic policy. --- Politics and government. --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Capitalism --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Economic conditions

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Archäologische und historische Untersuchungen zu Gruppen und Identitäten im frühen Mittelalter befinden sich seit einigen Jahren in einem Paradigmenwechsel. Statt einer möglichst strikten, idealtypischen Trennung zwischen "Germanen" und "Romanen" beginnt eine andere Perspektive in den Mittelpunkt zu rücken: die gemeinsame Lebenswelt in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter, die zeitgenössischen Verhältnisse, ihre Wahrnehmung und ihre Veränderungen.Wie sich neue politische und soziale Strukturen herausbildeten, auf welche Weise neue Identitäten an die Stelle bisheriger, sich auflösender Zuordnungen traten, ist nun von zentralem Interesse. Nicht Römer oder Germanen, sondern ganze Bevölkerungen unterschiedlicher individueller Herkunft hatten Anteil an einer Entwicklung, die als "Transformation der römischen Welt" beschrieben werden kann.Verschiedene Richtungen der Archäologie beschäftigen sich damit: kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu Sachkultur und Bestattungen, Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsarchäologie sowie Studien zu zeitgenössischen Vorstellungen und Identitäten. Miteinander verbunden bieten sie ein differenziertes und komplexes Bild kultureller und historischer Entwicklungen.

Archaeology, Medieval --- Antiquities, Medieval --- Medieval antiquities --- Medieval archaeology --- Europe, Western --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Antiquities --- Archaeology. --- Early Middle Ages. --- Germans. --- Historical Studies. --- Late Antiquity.

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Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fueled the North’s rise to prominence, and enabled it to rival the traditional cultural and political hegemony of the South. This includes not only the fascinating conquest of the polar regions, but also the religious upheaval of the Reformation, the changing view of nature engendered by Romanticism, and, not least, the revival of ancient Nordic and Celtic culture. Finally, the book offers an indispensable historical background to current events in the Far North, where the past and the future meet in a complex web of dramatic environmental concerns, the exploitation of natural resources, and the strategies of politics and commerce.

Civilization --- Readers --- Chrestomathies --- English language --- Preschool readers --- Anthologies --- Textbooks --- Cultural history --- History. --- Civilization. --- Europe, Northern --- Europe, Western --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Northern Europe