Economic and Social History Seminar
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Pim de Zwart
- Host
- Economics (Department)
- Series
- Economic and Social History Seminar
- Location
- All Souls College - Old Library, Old Library, All Souls College, High Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 4AL, United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
Why did the rise of global colonial trade since 1850 cause massive deforestation in some areas of the “Global South”, but not in others? Southeast Asia suffered some of the highest deforestation rates in the world and offers a rich area for study due to its political and social-economic diversity. In my presentation I will introduce a new project that investigates long-run deforestation rates in insular Southeast Asia. We aim to develop new detailed, spatially explicit, estimates of forest cover based on colonial-era vegetation and topographic maps and statistical materials. To explain the observed patterns of spatial environmental change, we will examine the interaction of global commodity trade with colonial policies, local land rights, and socio-economic and political inequalities
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