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This chapter is dedicated to a review of the history and definition of the main subdisciplines that connect geography and history. In particular, historical geography, geographical history, environmental history, historical ecology, and geoarchaeology are introduced as “bridging disciplines” driven by an underlying geohistorical approach. The terms environment, territory, and landscape, each with its own origins, meanings, and uses, are also reviewed. These three terms represent the general objects of studies in the use of the geohistorical approach, a term defined in the latter part of the second chapter. This definition is enriched by an explanation of the importance of historical analyses in studies involving environment, territory, and landscape. The differences between and the opportunities for synchronic and diachronic analyses are also presented.

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  1. 1.

    French Environment & Energy Management Agency.

  2. 2.

    German Environment Agency.

  3. 3.

    Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research.

  4. 4.

    Both anthropic, naturalistic, chemical-physical, climatic, landscape-related, architectural, cultural, agricultural and economical.

  5. 5.

    Raffestin (2005), for example, defines territory as the product of the interaction between the ‘environment’ and the humans.

  6. 6.

    “Étude géographique des processus historiques, la géohistoire consiste à mobiliser les outils du géographe pour composer une explication des évènements et des périodicités, partant de l’hypothèse que la localisation des phénomènes de société est une dimension fondamentale de leur logique meme” (Lévy and Lussault 2003) Translation of the author: “The geographical study of historical processes, geohistory consists of the mobilization of the geographer’s tools to compose an explanation of the events and periodicities, starting from the hypothesis that the location of the social phenomena is a fundamental dimension of their own logic.”

  7. 7.

    https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/100geosites.

  8. 8.

    https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1582/index.htm.

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Piovan, S.E. (2020). The Geohistorical Approach in Environmental and Territorial Studies. In: The Geohistorical Approach. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42439-8_2

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