Invisible Mountains? The Eastern and Southern Carpathians and their Environmental History (Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)

IF 0.8 3区 历史学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI:10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903578
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The environmental history of the pre-modern Eastern and Southern Carpathians is largely understudied, primarily due to the scarcity of sources. Also, since these mountains divided Moldavia and Wallachia from Transylvania, historians have regarded them as a political frontier. This article shows the possibilities of studying the Carpathians’ past environment while demonstrating short and long-term anthropogenic changes from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. It also offers a detailed overview of the extant sources that complement and confirm the results from palaeobotanical and dendrochronological studies. The Ottoman fiscal and commercial pressure on Moldavia and Wallachia as well as the emergence of Transylvania as an independent principality in the sixteenth century increased demand for grassland, fuelwood and timber, affecting the environment in the long run. The article shows that the Southern and Eastern Carpathians were well-integrated into the regional and superregional economy and the importance of their resources was not marginal.
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看不见的山脉?东喀尔巴阡山脉和南喀尔巴阡山脉及其环境史(十四至十七世纪)
主要由于资料来源的匮乏,对近代以前的东喀尔巴阡山脉和南喀尔巴阡山脉的环境历史的研究大多不足。此外,由于这些山脉将摩尔达维亚和瓦拉几亚与特兰西瓦尼亚分割开来,历史学家将其视为政治边界。本文展示了研究喀尔巴阡山脉过去环境的可能性,同时展示了十四世纪至十七世纪的短期和长期人为变化。文章还详细概述了现存资料,这些资料补充并证实了古植物学和树木年代学研究的结果。奥斯曼帝国对摩尔达维亚和瓦拉几亚施加的财政和商业压力,以及十六世纪特兰西瓦尼亚作为独立公国的出现,增加了对草地、薪材和木材的需求,对环境产生了长期影响。文章表明,南喀尔巴阡山脉和东喀尔巴阡山脉已充分融入地区和超地区经济,其资源的重要性并非无足轻重。
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期刊介绍: Environment and History is an interdisciplinary journal which aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the deliberate intention of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems. Articles appearing in Environment and History are abstracted and indexed in America: History and Life, British Humanities Index, CAB Abstracts, Environment Abstracts, Environmental Policy Abstracts, Forestry Abstracts, Geo Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, History Journals Guide, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Landscape Research Extra, Referativnyi Zhurnal, Rural Sociology Abstracts, Social Sciences in Forestry and World Agricultural Economics.
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