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Environment and History
Acronym: 
EH
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Editor, Karen Jones

Ubicación

School of History
Rutherford College University of Kent
CT2 7NX Canterbury , Kent
Reino Unido
Kent GB
Working languages: 
inglés

Environment and History is an interdisciplinary journal which aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the deliberate intention of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems.

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Singapore’s Lost Coast
Artículos de revistas y libros
Septiembre, 2019
Singapur

Beginning during the colonial period, and greatly accelerating following independence in 1965, Singapore has used land reclamation to increase its national domain by nearly 25 per cent. The construction of new land was a key component of the nation’s celebrated rise from ‘third world’ to ‘first world’ in the postcolonial period. But the economic benefits of remaking Singapore’s coastline came at significant ecological and social costs. Nearly all of the original shore, and its attendant mangrove forests and natural beaches, were lost. So too were two-thirds of Singapore’s coral reefs.

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