At nature's edge : the global present and long-term history /
In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean coast, the Negev desert and the former military bases of Vietnam or the Namib desert and the east African savannah all have in common a l...
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations. The global present and long-term perspectives on nature and history: an introduction / Gunnel Cederlöf and Mahesh Rangarajan. Provincializing the anthropocene: Eurocentrism in the earth system / Kathleen D. Morrison
- Anthropogenic landscapes of the central Himalayas / Vasudha Pande
- Wild children / Michael Adams
- A historical ecology of cattle in Mozambique / Anneli Ekblom
- Wild beasts in the city / Harini Nagendra
- History eats its young: the perils of short-termism in understanding the past / Sandra Swart
- Going, going, gone: a history of Israel's biodiversity / Alon Tal
- History and the militarized landscape: long historical and broad social views / David Biggs
- "Natural" no more? Delhi's Yamuna River / Ravi Agarwal
- South Asia's coastal frontiers / Sunil Amrith
- Narratives from Indian Seas: marine resource use, ecosystem responses, and the accidents of history / Rohan Arthur
- Expanding nature conservation: considering wide landscapes and deep histories / T.R. Shankar Raman. Bibliography
- Index
- About the editors and contributors.