An Environmental History of India
Subtitle: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 25, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781107111622
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century (New Approaches to Asian History)