Conserving Eden
The (European) East India Companies and their Environmental Policies on St. Helena, Mauritius, and in Western India, 1660 to 1854
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Grove (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 318-351 |
| Publication date | 1993-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500018399 |
| OpenAlex | W2108673695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 29 |
The history of tropical forest change over the last millennium is difficult to chart with any confident degree of accuracy. Indeed, systematic attempts even for the last hundred years have been made only recently. In general, more is known at present about the history of tropical forests in Asia and Southeast Asia than forests in Africa or South America. This lack of knowledge is partly due to the fact that the causal factors behind the erosion of tropical forests area are particularly difficult to disentangle. However, important connections can be made between European expansion, the penetration of capitalist economic forces, and the transformation of tropical environments.Above all, the spread of market relations in the tropics has served to encourage the rapid clearance of forests for agriculture. The history of global deforestation has probably been closely associated at many of its fastest stages with the dynamics of the forces of industrialisation and the expansion of a European-centered world-system
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Clear waters and muddied histories
Islands in the Pacific
Environmental management, equity and ecofeminism
Colonialism and Forestry in India
Romanticism and the sciences
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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |