Nature and the Orient

This text covers a vast geographical, disciplinary and temporal span. Discussing diverse aspects of the environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, it brings together reading experts from the fields of archaeology, history, history of science, geography and environmental studies, and covers a time span from 50,000 BC to the present. The text should be of interest to environmental historians, historians of science, conservationists, foresters, geographers, policy-makers and development agencies as well as the general reader.