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Environmental History
As if Nature Existed
McNeill, Josè Augusto Pádua, and Mahesh Rangarajan
260 pages
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225x147mm
978-0-19-806448-0
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Hardback
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24 December 2009
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- Pioneering study on two new sub-disciplines
- Link between history, economics, and environment
- Part of the important new series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being
- Authors are renowned environmentalists, historians, and economists
This volume brings to the reader the history of the alteration of environment by human action, and the reciprocal influence of the environment upon human history. The collection traces the long history of geographical shifts in human occupation, the difficult path to industrialization, the forced displacements and destruction of forests and marshes, the state-led industrialization in response to poverty, and the destruction of forests due to European colonialism etc. A set of macro- and micro-regional studies of environmental history and economic development with respect to India, China, Bangladesh, and Brazil are discussed. As a whole, this
collection offers some of the best recent works at the intersection of two new sub-disciplines taking history, economics, and nature into account.
Contributed by experts in the fields of sociology, history, ecology, and economics, this pioneering work is an invaluable resource for academics of all social science disciplines, environmentalists, economists, anthropologists, urban policy planners, and researchers.Readership: Academics, environmentalists, economists, anthropologists, students of development economics, environmental studies, and sociology; and urban policyplanners seeking links between sustainability and development.
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McNeill, Dr., Georgetown University, Josè Augusto Pádua, Dr., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and Mahesh Rangarajan, Dr., University of Delhi Contributors:
Kumudini Abeysuriya is a Senior Research Consultant at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney; Asmita Bhardwaj is a doctoral candidate at the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University; Vinita Damodaran is at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK; Mariana Fischer-Kowalski is at the CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia; Fridolin Krausman is
at the Institute of Social Ecology, Klagenfurt University, Vienna, Austria;; Bao Maohong is an Associate Professor of Environmental History and Asia-Pacific studies at Peking University, China; J.R. McNeill is University of Professor of History at Georgetown University; Cynthia Mitchell is a Professor of Sustainability at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney; Jose Augusto Padua is Professor of Environmental History at the History Department and PhD Program on Social History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro;; V R Raghavan is Director of the DCSMAT School of Business at Pullikanam, Idukki, Kerala, India; Mahesh Rangarajan is Professor, the Department of History, University of Delhi, India; Golam Rasul is a Policy Development Specialist at the
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD); Heinz Schandl is at the CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia; Dr. Juliet Willetts is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney.
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1.: Global Studies
Environmental History in General and in Asia; Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire; Industrialization as a Socio-ecological Transition Process; Urban Sanitation through the Lens of Thomas Kuhn; Economic Development, Environment and Society: Reading Karl William Kapp (1910-1976);
2.: Macro-Regional Studies
Environmental Resources and Chinese Historical Development; Of Nature and Nationalism: Rethinking India's Nehru; European Colonialism and Tropical Forest Destruction in Brazil: The Environmental Dimension beyond Economic History;
3.: Micro-regional Studies
Globalization and Tribal Histories in Eastern India; From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution in India: 1965-2007; Migration and Ecological Consequences: the Case of Kerala, India; Policy Root in Environmental Degradation: the Case of Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.
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