Tropical pioneers: human agency and ecological change in the highlands of Sri Lanka 1800-1900/ James L.A. Webb
Material type: TextSeries: Ohio University Press series in ecology and historyPublication details: Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002Description: xviii, 243p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0821414275Subject(s): Nature--Effect of human beings on | Rain forest ecology | Sri Lanka | Agricultural ecology | Human ecologyDDC classification: 577.3409549309034Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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577.3 RAM/T Tree biotechnology/ | 577.34 MAR/T Tropical Forests/ | 577.34095484 THA/F Forest policy and ecological change: Hyderabad state in colonial India/ | 577.3409549309034 WEB/T Tropical pioneers: human agency and ecological change in the highlands of Sri Lanka 1800-1900/ | 577.3409549309034 WEB/T Tropical pioneers: human agency and ecological change in the highlands of Sri Lanka 1800-1900/ | 577.53 GOV/R Report of the High Level Working Group on Western Ghats/ | 577.53 GOV/R Report of the High Level Working Group on Western Ghats/ |
1. The natural ecology of the island and processes of early ecological change --
2. The highland ecologies in the early nineteenth century --
3. Early-nineteenth century processes of change --
4. The transformation of the middle highlands --
5. Into the upeer highlands --
Appendixes: --
1. Sir Joseph Banks, director of Kew Gardens, on the principles on which a colonial botanic garden in Ceylon should be founded --
2. Sir Joseph Bank's instructions to William Kerr, first gardener of the Royal Botanic Garden, Ceylon --
3. Burning the forest --
4. Cinchona harveting --
5. Superintendents, assistant directors, and directors of the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, in the nineteenth century.
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