People in Peril, Environments at Risk: Coolies, Tigers, and Colonial Singapore's Ecology of Poverty

In recent years, scholars have demonstrated that affluent societies have a disproportionate environmental impact. A focus on wealth, however, can obscure how poverty also propels ecosystem destruction, particularly when combined - as in colonial Singapore - with uncaring administrators and the ruthl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Powell, Miles Alexander
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88201
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44565