Ekohistorija ili ekopovijest (povijest okoliša) proučava prošle ekosustave, te povijest interakcije čovjeka i prirode na različitim razinama. Ekohistorija tradicionalno istražuje svoj predmet na tri razine: 1) ekološkoj – značajke i funkcije nekog ekosustava koji obuhvaća biotičke i abiotičke sastavnice, 2) proizvodnoj – međuodnosi socioekonomske djelatnosti i prirodne sredine i 3) ideološkoj – značajke i promjene shvaćanja prirodne okoline. Zato je temeljna epistemološka orijentacija ekohistorije interdisciplinarnost i transdisciplinarnost u širokom rasponu, od geologije i klimatologije do antropologije i teologije.
U Hrvatskoj se područjem ekohistorije bave strukovna udruga Društvo za hrvatsku ekonomsku povijest i ekohistoriju te časopis Ekonomska i ekohistorija. Časopis i društvo su osnovani 2005..
Bibliografija
- Alfred W. Crosby (2003): The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. 30th Anniversary Edition. Greenwood Press.
- Alfred W. Crosby (1986): Ecological imperialism: the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Studies in environment and history).
- Jared Diamond: Sva naša oružja. Algoritam, Zagreb 2007.
- Jared Diamond: Treća čimpanza - evolucija i budućnost ljudske životinje, Profil indigo, Profil international, Zagreb, 2008.
- Brian M. Fagan (2001): The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850. New York: Basic Books.
- Brian M. Fagan (2004): The Long Summer. How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books.
- Hrvoje Petrić (2008.): Što je to povijest okoliša, (= [1]). Historični seminar 6, Ljubljana 2008.
- Hrvoje Petrić (2012.): Environmental History in Croatian Historiography, ESEH Notepad, in: Environment and History (0967-3407) 18 (2012), 4; 623-627
- Clive Ponting (1993): A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. London: Penguin.
- Joachim Radkau (2002): Natur und Macht. Eine Weltgeschichte der Umwelt. Aktualisierte und erweiterte Fassung. München: Beck. -
- Ian G. Simmons, Environmental History. New Perspectives on the Past (Oxford 1993)
- Ted Steinberg (2002), Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History, New York: Oxford University Press.
- Wolfram Siemann (Hg.) (2003): Umweltgeschichte. Themen und Perspektiven. München: Beck, ISBN 3-406-49438-2 -
- Verena Winiwarter (1998): Was ist Umweltgeschichte? Ein Überblick. (= Social Ecology Working Paper 54). Wien: Institut für Soziale Ökologie, Fakultät für Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung IFF. 62 S.
- Verena Winiwarter, Martin Knoll (2007): Umweltgeschichte. Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: UTB/ Böhlau
- Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant (Editors) (2004): Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. New York: Routledge. -
Mrežne stranice vezane uz povijest okoliša
- American Society for Environmental History
- Svi brojevi časopisa "Ekonomska i ekohistorija"
- Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network
- CRUMLEY, Carole L. (1987) "Historical Ecology" — en Regional dynamics: Burgundian landscapes in historical perspective / edited by Carole L. Crumley and William H. Marquardt — San Diego : Academic Press, c1987.
- de VRIES, Jan (1985): "Analysis of Historical Climate-Society Interaction" — Scientific Committee On Problems of the Environment (SCOPE): SCOPE 27: Climate Impact Assessment - Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society, Part III. Social and Economic Impacts and Adjustments, 11.
- Environmental History on the Internet
- European Society for Environmental History
- Forest History Society
- Mrežne stranice Društva za hrvatsku ekonomsku povijest i ekohistoriju