[PDF.90ho] World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC-AD2000

World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC-AD2000

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 | #992704 in Books |  AltaMira Press |  2001-05-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.94 x.58 x5.88l,.81 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestration 3000 B.C. - A.D. 2000|By William B. Devall|Using world systems theory as his springboard, Sing Chew develops a social history of the rise and fall of civilizations from the Bronze Age to the emergence of Europe as the center of the world economic system in the eighteenth century.

Chew's thes| |Sing Chew's book is an outstanding contribution to environmental history. By utilizing world systems theory and presenting the pattern of overuse of resources by many different civilizations as they attempted to grow their empires over the past five thousand y

Deforestation, soil runoff, salination and pollution, all recurrent themes of the contemporary world, but they are not new to the world. This is a sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5000 years. The book shows that the processes of population growth, intense resource accumulation and urbanization in ancient and modern societies almost universally bring on ecological disaster, which can often contribute ...

You easily download any file type for your device.World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC-AD2000   |  Sing C. Chew. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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