An environmental history of India: from earliest times to the twenty-first century

"The relatively young but rapidly expanding field of formal environmental history informs us ever more about vital patterns of interactions among humans, other living beings, and the material world. Climate change, species extinction, unequally distributed and overstrained essential resources (...

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Main Author: Fisher, Michael Herbert 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melboure ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2018
Series:New approaches to Asian history 18
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Summary:"The relatively young but rapidly expanding field of formal environmental history informs us ever more about vital patterns of interactions among humans, other living beings, and the material world. Climate change, species extinction, unequally distributed and overstrained essential resources (including clean air, energy, food, land, and water), and other of today's pressing issues can only be understood and mitigated by understanding the many centuries of dynamic changes that caused them. The Indian subcontinent has a distinctively complex environmental history that makes it particularly vulnerable to current environmental stresses"...
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 301 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781316276044
DOI:10.1017/9781316276044

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