Environmental History in India and China

J. Donald Hughes

Environmental History: Definition Study of the evolution of the human relationship to nature

• How human societies have interacted with the environment through time.

• Expands historical method by using ecological analysis.

• How systems of the Earth have influenced human affairs.

• Changes caused by human agency in the natural environment.

• Evaluate ideas of humans about “nature.”

World Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen 2009

INDIA

Ramachandra Guha

Madhav Gadgil

Sacred grove in Uttara Kannada

Rana P. B. Singh

Deepak Kumar

Jawaharlal

Nehru University

Ravi Rajan

Laxman D. Satya

Mahesh Rangarajan

Ranjan Chakrabarti

CHINA

Capital Normal University

Bao Maohong

“Environmental History in China” Environment and History

Volume 10, Number 4 (2004) Pp. 475-500

Wang Lihua

Nankai University

Mei Xueqin

Beijing Normal University

Tsinghua University

Liu

Disasters Wet and Dry: Rivers, Floods, and Droughts in World History

An international conference to be held in Beijing, at Renmin University of China,

May 23-26, 2013

Co-Sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, and the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China

Xia Mingfeng

Donald Worster

Union Carbide – Dow Chemical

Deforestation and erosion in the Himalaya