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Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism  
Author: Gregory Allen Barton
ISBN: 0521814170
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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"IEmpire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism is full of fascinating, well-developed information..." Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists


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Environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India. During the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the U.S. and to other parts of the world. Gregory A. Barton's pioneering study views the origins of environmentalism in global perspective.


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What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who celebrated a new class of government foresters as public heroes. Imperial foresters warned of impending catastrophe, desertification and global climate change if the reverse process of deforestation continued. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's pioneering study is amongst the first to look at the origins of environmentalism in global perspective.




Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism

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"The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's pioneering study is amongst the first to look at this movement, and thus the origins of environmentalism, in global perspective." Born under imperialism, environmentalism today is as profound a global movement as that for democracy itself.

     



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