Economic development and environmental history in the Anthropocene : perspectives on Asia and Africa /

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For the populations of the developing economies - the vast majority of humanity - the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation itself...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Austin, Gareth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloombury Publishing Plc., 2017.
Temas:
Economic development > Asia.
Economic development > Africa.
Human ecology > Asia > History.
Human ecology > Africa > History.
Développement économique > Asie.
Développement économique > Afrique.
General & world history.
Asian history.
African history.
Economic history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Economic development.
Human ecology.
Africa.
Asia.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:For the populations of the developing economies - the vast majority of humanity - the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation itself. This book explores the interactions between economic development and the physical environment in four regions of the developing world: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. The contributors focus on the 'Anthropocene': our present era, in which humanity's influence on the physical environment has begun to mark the geological record. Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene examines environmental changes at global level and human responses to environmental opportunities and constraints on more local and regional scales, themes which have been insufficiently studied to date. This volume fills this gap in the literature by combining historical, economic and geographical perspectives to consider the implications of the Anthropocene for economic development in Asia and Africa.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781474267502
1474267505
9781474267519
1474267513
9781474267526
1474267521

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