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 (includi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018].
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| Series: | New approaches to Asian history ;
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107111622 1107111625 9781107529106 1107529107 |