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020			_a9780195653755
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distibutors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/000409 _d: 24/01/2026
082			_a333.7 GRO
100			_aGrove, Richard H. (Ed.)
245			_aNature and the orient _b: The environmental history of South and Southeast Asia. _c/ Richard H. Grove.
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2000.
300			_axx, 1036 p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b906.5
520			_aDiscussing 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.
650			_aSoutheast Asia
650			_aForest management
650			_aEcology
700			_aRichard H. Grove.
942			_cBOOK
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