Description: Deforesting the EarthAuthor(s): Michael Williams Format: Paperback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226899473, 978-0226899473 Synopsis Published in 2002, "Deforesting the Earth" was a landmark study of the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an abridgement, this edition retains the breadth of the original while rendering its arguments accessible to a general readership. Deforestation - the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests for fuel, shelter, and agriculture - is among the most important ways humans have transformed the environment. Surveying ten thousand years to trace human-induced deforestation's effect on economies, societies, and landscapes around the world, "Deforesting the Earth" is the pre-eminent history of this process and its consequences. Beginning with the return of the forests after the ice age to Europe, North America, and the tropics, Michael Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic age through the classical world and the medieval period. He then focuses on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, from the 1500s to the early 1900s, in such places as the New World, India, and Latin America, and considers indigenous clearing in India, China, and Japan. Finally, he covers the current alarming escalation of deforestation, with our ever-increasing human population placing a potentially unsupportable burden on the world's forests.
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Book Title: Deforesting the Earth
Number of Pages: 561 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Deforesting the Earth: from Prehistory to Global Crisis, an Abridgment
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Geology, Management
Item Height: 228 mm
Item Weight: 908 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Michael Williams
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
