"Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia"
Until about fifteen centuries ago the interaction of humans with the Southeast Asian rainforest was primarily one of interdependence…
Until about fifteen centuries ago the interaction of humans with the Southeast Asian rainforest was primarily one of interdependence…
Feelings of hatred, fear and alienation towards the Australian environment have been amongst the major themes of Australian history. Farmers especially have been characterised as hating trees, particularly in the densely treed, difficult to clear rainforests of eastern Australia…
This paper aims (1) to contribute to a nuanced history of forest change in southeastern Mexico; and (2) to explore the role of institutional development in reducing deforestation rates.
From the 1980s, ecologists Len Webb and Geoff Tracey utilised evidence provided by palaeoecological studies and the new theory of continental drift to argue that these rainforests were an ancient and truly Australian environment…
The anthropocentric ethic implicit in all solutions regarding global commons is contrasted with the ecocentric one which may be necessary to preserve the biosphere in the future.