World Ecological Degradation

Released on by Sing C. Chew
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  • World Ecological Degradation Book Detail

  • Author : Sing C. Chew
  • Release Date : 2001
  • Publisher : Rowman Altamira
  • Genre : Nature
  • Pages : 238
  • ISBN 13 : 9780759100312
  • File Size : 66,66 MB
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World Ecological Degradation by Sing C. Chew PDF Summary

Book Description: Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution. While recurrent themes of the contemporary world, they are not new to us. In this broad sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5,000 years, Sing C. Chew shows that these processes are as old as civilization itself. With examples ranging from Ancient Mesopotamia to Malaya, Mycenaean Greece to Ming China, Chew shows that the processes of population growth, intensive resource accumulation, and urbanization in ancient and modern societies almost universally bring on ecological disaster, which often contributes to the decline and fall of that society. He then turns his eye to the development of the modern European world-system and its impact on the environment. Challenging us to change these long-term trends, Chew also traces the existence of environmental conservation ideas and movements over the span of 5,000 years. Can we do it? Look at Chew's evidence of the past five millennia and decide. Ideal for courses in environmental history, anthropology, and sociology, and world-systems theory.

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