01638nam a22002297a 4500 20260130143510.0 260130b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780195653755 : Brijwasi Book Distibutors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi : BW/000409 : 24/01/2026 333.7 GRO Grove, Richard H. (Ed.) Nature and the orient : The environmental history of South and Southeast Asia. / Richard H. Grove. New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2000. xx, 1036 p. : 24cm. 906.5 Discussing diverse aspects of the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, from a variety of perspectives, it brings together leading experts from the fields of history, history of science, archaeology, geography and environmental studies, and covers a time span from 50,000 BC to the present. Spanning a geographical region from Peshawar on the North-West Frontier to the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia, this book tells the story of the highly complex relationship between people and their environment. Among a multitude of subjects it reports on the latest findings in settlement archaeology, the history of deforestation, climate change, the history of fishing, hunting and shikar, colonial science and forest management, indigenous plant knowledge, the history of famine, the impact of coalmining and the tragic story of India's tragic story of India's tribal communities. Southeast Asia Forest management Ecology Richard H. Grove. BOOK 67078 67078 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-01-30 Brijwasi Book Distributors 906.50 0 333.7 GRO 31313 2026-01-30 14:35:00 2026-01-30 BOOK