Sing C Chew: 3 books
World Ecological Degradation
Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC-AD2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution. While recurrent themes of the contemporary world, they are not new to us. In this broad sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5,000 years, Sing C. Chew shows that these processes are...
The Recurring Dark Ages
Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In this, his second of a three-volume series concerning world ecological degradation, Chew reviews the past 5,000-year history of structural...
The Southeast Asia Connection
Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The contribution of Southeast Asia to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not received much attention. It has often been viewed as a region of peripheral entrepôts, especially in the early centuries of the current era. Recent archaeological evidence revealed...