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020			_a9780195653755
082			_a333.7130954 _bGRO
100			_aGrove, Richard
245			_aNature and the orient: the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia
260			_bOxford University Press, _c1998. _aNew Delhi:
300			_axx, 1036p.; _bpbk; _c22cm.
440			_aStudies in social ecology and environmental history
504			_aIncludes index and bibliography
520			_aDiscussing diverse aspects of the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, from a variety of perspectives, it brings together leading experts from the fields of history, history of science, archaeology, geography and environmental studies, and covers a time span from 50,000 BC to the present. Spanning a geographical region from Peshawar on the North-West Frontier to the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia, this book tells the story of the highly complex relationship between people and their environment. Among a multitude of subjects it reports on the latest findings in settlement archaeology, the history of deforestation, climate change, the history of fishing, hunting and shikar, colonial science and forest management, indigenous plant knowledge, the history of famine, the impact of coalmining and the tragic story of India's tragic story of India's tribal communities. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/nature-and-the-orient-9780195653755?lang=en&cc=be#
650			_aSoutheast Asia
650			_aSouth Asia
650			_aEcology
650			_aIndia
650			_aForest management
700			_aSangwan, Satpal _eCo-Author
700			_aDamodaran, Vinita _eCo-Author
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