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By Sing C. Chew

ISBN-10: 0759100306

ISBN-13: 9780759100305

ISBN-10: 0759100314

ISBN-13: 9780759100312

Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollutants. whereas recurrent issues of the modern global, they aren't new to us. during this large sweeping evaluation of the environmental affects of human payment and improvement around the globe during the last 5,000 years, Sing C. bite exhibits that those tactics are as outdated as civilization itself. With examples starting from old Mesopotamia to Malaya, Mycenaean Greece to Ming China, chunk exhibits that the approaches of inhabitants development, extensive source accumulation, and urbanization in old and sleek societies nearly universally bring forth ecological catastrophe, which frequently contributes to the decline and fall of that society. He then turns his eye to the improvement of the trendy eu world-system and its impression at the setting. demanding us to alter those long term traits, bite additionally strains the life of environmental conservation rules and activities over the span of 5,000 years. do we do it? examine Chew's proof of the previous 5 millennia and choose. perfect for classes in environmental heritage, anthropology, and sociology, and world-systems theory.

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