Economic development and environmental history in the Anthropocene perspectives on Asia and Africa
"For the populations of the developing economies - the vast majority of humanity - the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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[London] :
Bloomsbury Academic
2017.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Gareth Austin
- 2.Environmental Impacts of Colonial Dynamics, 1400--1800: The First Global Age and the Anthropocene / Jorge M. Pacheco
- 3.Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1500--1800 / Mats Widgren
- 4.Containers, Energy and the Anthropocene in West Africa / Emily Lynn Osborn
- 5.Africa and the Anthropocene / Gareth Austin
- 6.Monsoon Asia, Intra-Regional Trade and Fossil-Fuel-Driven Industrialization / Kaoru Sugihara
- 7.Forests and a New Energy Economy in Nineteenth-Century South India / Prasannan Parthasarathi
- 8.Land Quality, Carrying Capacity and Sustainable Agricultural Change in Twentieth-Century India / Tirthankar Roy
- 9.The Forests of Southeast Asia, Forest Transition Theory and the Anthropocene, 1500--2000 / Peter Boomgaard
- 10.Developing the Rain Forest: Rubber, Environment and Economy in Southeast Asia / Corey Ross
- Contents note continued: 11.The Development of Energy-Conservation Technology in Japan, 1920--70: An Analysis of Energy-Intensive Industries and Energy-Conservation Policies / Satoru Kobori
- 12.The Development of South Korea's Nuclear Industry in a Resource- and Capital-Scarce Environment / Se Young Jang
- 13.Water, Energy and Politics: Chinese Industrial Revolutions in Global Environmental Perspective / Kenneth Pomeranz
- 14.The Present Climate of Economics and History / Julia Adeney Thomas.
