Forests of Fortune?: The Environmental History of Southeast Borneo, 1600-1880
(Book #189 in the Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Series)
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The onslaught on the Bornean rain forest is a recurrent theme in the media today. Studies dealing with the island, however, have largely ignored the long-term antecedents of modern environmental changes and problems. Yet phenomena such as forest fires, logging, the decimation of animal populations, and lack of arable land are far from new, even for a sparsely populated island like Borneo. This book is the first attempt to deal with the long-term interrelation...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:9067181587
ISBN13:9789067181587
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:Brill
Length:487 Pages
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