Author: DARGAVEL, John, DIXON, Kay & SEMPLE, Noel eds.
Title: Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Aisa, Australasia and Oceania.
Description: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University Press, 1988. Paperback. A touch of sunning to spine, otherwise very good condition. Includes papers on Conservation and colonialism: the evolution of environmental attitudes and conservation policies on St Helena, Mauritius and in Western India, 1660-1854; On the history of Uttara Kannada forests; Forests and forestry in colonial Java, 1677-1942; How old is the deforestoration of Oceania?; Rainforest and instability and forest management in Papua New Guinea; The economics and ecology of the production of the tropical rainforest resources by tribal groups of Sarawak, Borneo; Forest history of the continental islands: the Great Barrier Reef etc. 446pp. ISBN-10 086740342X.

Keywords: ecology biology plant fauna ecosystem environment environmental tropic tropical rain forest rainforest asia asian australia australian papua new guinea oceania indonesia java queensland reef marine India Himalaya