04733nam 22006131 450 991051148940332120171009133808.01-4742-6752-11-4742-6750-51-4742-6751-310.5040/9781474267526(CKB)4340000000214637(MiAaPQ)EBC5042961(MiAaPQ)EBC6164752(OCoLC)1003192906(UtOrBLW)bpp09261155(EXLCZ)99434000000021463720171025d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierEconomic development and environmental history in the Anthropocene perspectives on Asia and Africa /edited by Gareth Austin[London] :Bloomsbury Academic,2017.1 online resource (332 pages) illustrations, maps, photographs, tablesIncludes index.1-350-10926-6 1-4742-6749-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Gareth Austin -- 2.Environmental Impacts of Colonial Dynamics, 1400--1800: The First Global Age and the Anthropocene / Jorge M. Pacheco -- 3.Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1500--1800 / Mats Widgren -- 4.Containers, Energy and the Anthropocene in West Africa / Emily Lynn Osborn -- 5.Africa and the Anthropocene / Gareth Austin -- 6.Monsoon Asia, Intra-Regional Trade and Fossil-Fuel-Driven Industrialization / Kaoru Sugihara -- 7.Forests and a New Energy Economy in Nineteenth-Century South India / Prasannan Parthasarathi -- 8.Land Quality, Carrying Capacity and Sustainable Agricultural Change in Twentieth-Century India / Tirthankar Roy -- 9.The Forests of Southeast Asia, Forest Transition Theory and the Anthropocene, 1500--2000 / Peter Boomgaard -- 10.Developing the Rain Forest: Rubber, Environment and Economy in Southeast Asia / Corey Ross --Contents note continued: 11.The Development of Energy-Conservation Technology in Japan, 1920--70: An Analysis of Energy-Intensive Industries and Energy-Conservation Policies / Satoru Kobori -- 12.The Development of South Korea's Nuclear Industry in a Resource- and Capital-Scarce Environment / Se Young Jang -- 13.Water, Energy and Politics: Chinese Industrial Revolutions in Global Environmental Perspective / Kenneth Pomeranz -- 14.The Present Climate of Economics and History / Julia Adeney Thomas."For the populations of the developing economies - the vast majority of humanity - the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation itself. This book explores the interactions between economic development and the physical environment in four regions of the developing world: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. The contributors focus on the 'Anthropocene': our present era, in which humanity's influence on the physical environment has begun to mark the geological record. Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene examines environmental changes at global level and human responses to environmental opportunities and constraints on more local and regional scales, themes which have been insufficiently studied to date. This volume fills this gap in the literature by combining historical, economic and geographical perspectives to consider the implications of the Anthropocene for economic development in Asia and Africa."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Economic developmentEnvironmental aspectsAfrica, Sub-SaharanEconomic developmentEnvironmental aspectsAfricaEconomic developmentEnvironmental aspectsAsiaEconomic developmentEnvironmental aspectsDeveloping countriesHuman ecologyAfrica, Sub-SaharanHistoryHuman ecologyAsiaHistoryGeneral & world historyEconomic developmentEnvironmental aspectsEconomic developmentEnvironmental aspectsEconomic developmentEnvironmental aspectsEconomic developmentEnvironmental aspectsHuman ecologyHistory.Human ecologyHistory.338.90091724Austin GarethUtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910511489403321Economic development and environmental history in the Anthropocene2551307UNINA