Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on Asia and Africa

This open access book explores the interactions between economic development and the physical environment in four regions of the developing world: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia.

The contributors focus on the 'Anthropocene': our present era, in which humanity's influence on the physical environment has begun to mark the geological record. For the populations of the developing economies – the vast majority of humanity – the present century offers the prospect o...