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This is a collection of essays showing that concerns about climate change are far from being a uniquely modern phenomenon. It traces the origins of environmental debates about soil erosion, deforestation, and climate change in the writings of early colonial administrators, doctors and missionaries. The author traces what is known and what can be inferred about El Nino events centuries before the devastating 1997/1998 effects. In a concluding essay he analyzes the general significance of "marginal" land and its ecology in the history of popular resistance movements.
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Richard Grove has written another fascinating and stimulating book to complement his 'Green Imperialism'. Its title, perhaps, fails to express the book's relevance to all interested in land use, conservation and, especially, the management of forests and other commons. It draws on experience over the centuries from Europe, the West Indies, St. Helena, Mauritius, India, South Africa, Australia and New England....I thoroughly recommend the book to all interested and involved in managing 'the commons' in whatever part of the world they work. -- Commonwealth Forestry Review 77[3], 1998
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Richard Grove is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is founder-editor of the international journal Environment and History. His books include Green Imperialism (1995) and Nature and the Orient (1997).
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- PublisherWhite Horse Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1874267197
- ISBN 13 9781874267195
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages250
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