Based on a critical analysis of José Augusto Drummond's book Devastação e preservação ambiental no Rio de Janeiro, the author of this article has compiled an inventory of the researchers, issues, and sources that are found within the field of eco-history. The appearance of this new area of research within Brazilian historiography has forced the discipline to seriously rethink relations between the social and natural sciences, society and biology, man and nature.
eco-history; environmental history; eco-region; Rio de Janeiro; Atlantic rain forest