Green imperialism: colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600 - 1860
In: Studies in environment and history
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In: Studies in environment and history
In: ICMA public management magazine: PM, Band 89, Heft 11, S. 27-31
ISSN: 0033-3611
In: Public management: PM, Band 87, Heft 10, S. 16-19
ISSN: 0033-3611
In: Harvard international review, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 50-55
ISSN: 0739-1854
Discusses linking of deforestation to rainfall and climate change by Pierre Poivre in the 1760s, forest reserve legislation in colonial empires, and forest reserve system set up in India in 1864; argues for state intervention to control global capital interests. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "Environmentalism and politics".
In: Harvard international review, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 50-55
ISSN: 0739-1854
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 121-143
ISSN: 1469-8099
While the growing volume of new long distance oceanic trade which developed during the fifteenth century helped to stimulate an awareness of the wider world in Western Europe, it also had a much more specific enabling effect on the development of natural history and the status of science in the eyes of government. A rising interest in empirical fact-gathering and experimentation led to a growing enthusiasm for experimentation with new types of medical practice and new drugs. Apothecaries' gardens became established at the universities and were increasingly stocked with plants imported from distant lands. These gardens became the sites of the first attempts to classify plants on a global basis. The voyages of the first century and a half after the journeys of Henry the Navigator from 1415 onwards had already begun to transform the science of botany and to enlarge medical ambitions for the scope of pharmacology and natural history. The foundation of the new botanic gardens was, therefore, clearly connected with the early expansion of the European economic system and remained an accurate indicator, in a microcosm, of the expansion in European knowledge of the global environment. The origins of the gardens in medical practice meant that, as a knowledge of global nature was acquired, the Hippocratic agendas of medicine and medical practitioners continued to form the dominant basis of European constructions of the extra-European natural world.
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 121-144
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 318-351
ISSN: 1475-2999
The history of tropical forest change over the last millennium is difficult to chart with any confident degree of accuracy. Indeed, systematic attempts even for the last hundred years have been made only recently. In general, more is known at present about the history of tropical forests in Asia and Southeast Asia than forests in Africa or South America. This lack of knowledge is partly due to the fact that the causal factors behind the erosion of tropical forests area are particularly difficult to disentangle. However, important connections can be made between European expansion, the penetration of capitalist economic forces, and the transformation of tropical environments.Above all, the spread of market relations in the tropics has served to encourage the rapid clearance of forests for agriculture. The history of global deforestation has probably been closely associated at many of its fastest stages with the dynamics of the forces of industrialisation and the expansion of a European-centered world-system.
In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 139
ISSN: 1045-5752
In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 157-159
ISSN: 1045-5752
In: African economic history, Heft 24, S. 1
ISSN: 2163-9108
In: Collection future antérieurs
In: Ecologie & politique: sciences, cultures, sociétés, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 83
ISSN: 2118-3147