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<\/a>CABRAL, Diogo de Carvalho. Na Presen\u00e7a da Floresta:, Mata Atl\u00e2ntica e Hist\u00f3ria Colonial. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond\/FAPERJ, 2014. 536pp.<\/p><\/div>\n
Jos\u00e9 Augusto\u00a0P\u00e1dua,\u00a0Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Alessandra Izabel de\u00a0Carvalho, of Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa,\u00a0<\/span>organized the material on the following themes: \u201cForests;\u201d \u201cAgriculture and livestock raising;\u201d \u201cBiodiversity and extraction of flora and fauna;\u201d \u201cUrban and industrial dynamics;\u201d \u201cRegions, territories and sociodiversity;\u201d \u201cEnvironmental thinking and environmentalism”.<\/p>\n The article concludes that there is a significant number of texts on the Atlantic Forest and the Amazon Forest, on the other we have a somewhat uncomfortable\u00a0deficit<\/em>\u00a0with respect to other biomes, such as the Pampas and the Caatinga. Overall, we can see that urban and industrial themes are addressed much less frequently than rural and forest themes. It is worth remembering, however,<\/p>\n MILLER, Shawn William. Fruitless. Trees \u2014 Portuguese Conservation and Brazil’s Colonial Timber. Stanford, Calif\u00f3rnia, Stanford Uni- versity Press, 2000.<\/p><\/div>\n Although some of the books described here have used interviews in their research, an oral history methodology still has much to contribute to environmental history research. We believe that incorporating the narratives of\u00a0cai\u00e7aras<\/em>\u00a0(coastal dwellers),\u00a0quilombolas<\/em>\u00a0(descendants of runaway slaves who formed\u00a0quilombo<\/em>\u00a0settlements), indigenous people, small farmers, riparian dwellers, and settlers may be one of the most promising paths for development of the field.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Environmental history in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n P\u00e1dua, Jos\u00e9 Augusto and Carvalho, Alessandra Izabel de. A constru\u00e7\u00e3o de um pa\u00eds tropical: uma apresenta\u00e7\u00e3o da historiografia ambiental sobre o Brasil<\/a>. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Out 2020, vol.27, no.4.<\/p>\n A history of the use of pesticides in Brazil, 1950-2002<\/a>\u00a0This paper presents a history of the use and perception of pesticides in the state of Santa Catarina.<\/p>\n LEONARDI, Victor. Os historiadores e os rios: natureza e ru\u00edna na amaz\u00f4nia brasileira. Bras\u00edlia: EdUnB\/Paralelo15, 1999.<\/p><\/div>\n Brazilian historiography and the environment<\/a>\u00a0This paper discusses the work of the historian Sergio Buarque de Holanda, especially on how human societies and the natural environment have affected one another.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tropical1ShawnWilliamMiller.jpg\")
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