Environmental Histories of the Dinaric Karst, Gebunden

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Some insights into the environmental history of the Dinaric Karst.- The Holocene vegetation and land-use history in the northern Dinaric Karst.- Prehistoric to medieval woodland management and agriculture in the westernmost Carpathian basin and the surrounding northern Dinaric Karst.- The formation of the Kras landscape from prehistory to the Early Modern Period.- Landscape change and fire risk in the Croatian Dinaric Karst - looking back and moving forward.- Land use / land cover changes on Croatian islands since the beginning of the 20th century - drivers and consequences.- Deforestation and reforestation attempts of the Military Frontier's coastal Dinaric Karst (1762-1881), Croatia.- Afforestation with non-native Pinus nigra in the karstic areas of southwestern Slovenia since the mid-nineteenth century.- Traditional management of forest resources in mountain sites of the Dinaric transhumance in Montenegro.- Scarcity versus abundance: a case study of the hardship and imminent starvation in the district of Senože¿e in 1864 and 1865.- Water infrastructure in Kras in the 19th century between continuity and change.- Climate and discharge trends, and flood hazard in Slovenia's Dinaric Karst region since the mid-20th century.- Empire, extraction, and externalization. Wood impregnation in early 20th century Bosnia and Herzegovina and its precarious legacy.- Examples of human disturbances in the Dinaric Karst landscape since the early twentieth century: a case study of Bela Krajina.- From karstology to war crimes. Third Reich's military and scientific exploitation of the Dinaric Karst.- The Dinaric Karst in environmental history perspective.