Knowing the Black Box: Methodological Challenges in Marine Environmental History

Marine environmental historians face a series of epistemological challenges when they attempt to historicize the oceans in periods before systematic scientific records. A review of recent work reveals methodological problems that must be addressed as historians move forward, and that encourage histo...

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Published in:Environmental history 2013-01, Vol.18 (1), p.60-75
Main Author: Taylor, Joseph E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ecological history
Ecology
Environmental history
Environmental studies
Epistemology
Fisheries management
Fisheries science
Historical analysis
Marine ecology
Marine ecosystems
Marine Forum
Ocean fisheries
Oceans
Seas
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Summary:Marine environmental historians face a series of epistemological challenges when they attempt to historicize the oceans in periods before systematic scientific records. A review of recent work reveals methodological problems that must be addressed as historians move forward, and that encourage historians to make their case more forcefully to marine biologists and historical ecologists that the study of the past requires a disciplined approach to evidence and its contexts. This has at times been sorely missing.
ISSN:1084-5453
1930-8892
DOI:10.1093/envhis/ems108