Deforesting the Earth by Michael Williams

Deforesting the Earth by Michael Williams

Deforestation - the thinning and clearing of forests for fuel, shelter, and agriculture - is among the important ways humans have transformed the environment. This book presents the history of this process and its consequences. It traces the impact of human activities from the Paleolithic age through the classical world and the medieval period.

"Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present should read this closely argued and sweeping surveyThis is rich, timely, and sobering historical fare written in a measured, non-sensationalist style by a master of his craft. One only hopes (almost certainly vainly) that today's policymakers take its lessons to heart." - Brian Fagan, Los Angeles Times "The most comprehensive account ever written of when, where, and how humans have wrought what is surely the most dramatic change in Earth's surface since the end of the Pleistocene.... The book is not simply about deforestation but about every aspect of human use of the forest and the forces that drive this use." - Brian Donahue, Science"

Michael Williams is professor of geography and the environment at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. He is the author, most recently, of Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography as well as the editor of Wetlands: A Threatened Landscape and coeditor of A Century of British Geography.

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ISBN 13	9780226899473
ISBN 10	0226899470
Title	Deforesting the Earth
Author	Michael Williams
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	2006-09-01
Number of pages	561
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