Article(print)2002

Climatic fears: colonialism and the history of environmentalism

In: Harvard international review, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 50-55

Grove, Richard

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Abstract

Discusses linking of deforestation to rainfall and climate change by Pierre Poivre in the 1760s, forest reserve legislation in colonial empires, and forest reserve system set up in India in 1864; argues for state intervention to control global capital interests. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "Environmentalism and politics".

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