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Environmental history investigates the interactions between society and its physical environment, on
symbolic, material and organisational levels. It opens new perspectives for deciphering contemporary
issues related to modifications of landscape, for understanding reoccurring conflicts over the allocation
and protection of natural resources, as well as for grasping the complexity and historicity of the social
representations and uses of the environment.
Since September 2003, the
Canada Research Chair in the Environmental History of Québec and the Centre interuniversitaire d’études
québécoises at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières has been working towards the development of the field.
The Chair supervises Master and Doctoral students in Études québécoises.
It also serves as an important research locale with collaboration of specialists in the fields of history of science, urban history, social and economic history,
material culture, and physical geography.
Seeking to broaden its research function and its ability to share information, the Canada Research Chair in the Environmental History of Québec has
developed an online database. This database includes a bibliography, an index of sources (both secondary and primary) as well as complete digital copies of
images and other published and unpublished documents. The database is available to historians, social scientists and natural scientists studying
social/environmental interactions from a diachronic perspective.
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