The Companion to Global Environmental History offersmultiple points of entry into the history and historiography ofthis dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential roadmap to past developments, current controversies, and futuredevelopments for specialists and newcomers alike. * Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextualapproaches from prehistory to the present day * Explores environmental thought and action around the world, togive readers a cultural, intellectual and political context forengagement with the environment in modern times * Brings together environmental historians from around the world,including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, andChina