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Date sent: 22 Oct 2009 I need to find a presenter to replace a late cancellation to a pair of AAG sessions on historical environmental change. The sessions bring together viewpoints ranging from cultural geography to biogeography. Thanks! Session title: Environmental Change in the Atlantic World Session abstract: How have human-environment interactions at particular locations in the Americas, Africa, or Europe been influenced by events, people, or organisms originating at distant locations in the Atlantic Basin? Using approaches rooted in historical geography and cultural and political ecology, the papers in this session examine how historic land-use and/or landscape changes can be understood as outcomes of broad-scale processes that extend beyond the limits suggested by the traditional area studies approach, which compartmentalizes the world into continental and sub-continental regions. The papers in the session show that human-environment interactions in the Atlantic World have been profoundly shaped by trans-oceanic influences, although many of these influences have been overlooked by geographers and other scholars.
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