Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800-1900

(Part of the Series in Ecology and History Series)

by James L.A. Webb Jr.

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In 1800, the highlands of Sri Lanka had some of the most biologically diverse primary tropical rainforest ecosystems in the world. By 1900, only a few craggy corners and mountain caps had been spared the fire stick. Highland villagers, through the extension of slash-and-burn agriculture, and British managers, through the creation of plantations-first of coffee, then cinchona, and finally tea-had removed virtually the entire primary forest cover. Tropical...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0821414283

ISBN13:9780821414286

Release Date:March 2002

Publisher:Ohio University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Asia Biological Sciences Conservation Ecology Engineering Forests & Forestry History Human Geography India Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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