Forests of Fortune?: The Environmental History of Southeast Borneo, 1600-1880

by Han Knapen

The onslaught on the Bornean rain forest is a recurrent theme in the media today. Studies dealing with the island, however, have largely ignored the long-term antecedents of modern environmental changes and problems. Yet phenomena such as forest fires, logging, the decimation of animal populations, and lack of arable land are far from new, even for a sparsely populated island like Borneo. This book is the first attempt to deal with the long-term interrelation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9067181587
• ISBN13: 9789067181587
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 487 Pages