1st Edition
Man and Natural Resources An Agricultural Perspective
By Cedric Stanton Hicks
Copyright 1975
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man’s ecological destruction in an industrial framework. As well as discussing the destruction of forests by early civilizations the book examines the rate and extension of environmental deterioration in more recent times and the importance of the integrated ‘feed-back’ controls which maintain... Read more
Biography
Cedric Stanton Hicks was Professor of Human Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Review of the original edition of Man & Natural Resources:
‘This is an important book…packed with information on the history of agriculture and the stages by which human invention, first technical then industrial has turned the cultivation of the land into a means of destroying our habitat, our society and ultimately our natural resources as well.’ New Scientist
