Invasive Predators in New Zealand Disaster on Four Small Paws
The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals. New Zealand’s
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Invasive Predators in New Zealand
Disaster on Four Small Paws
Carolyn M. King
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History Series Editors Vinita Damodaran Department of History University of Sussex Brighton, UK Rohan D’Souza Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan Sujit Sivasundaram University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK James John Beattie History Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand
The widespread perception of a global environmental crisis has stimulated the burgeoning interest in environmental studies and has encouraged a range of scholars, including historians, to place the environment at the heart of their analytical and conceptual explorations. An understanding of the history of human interactions with all parts of the cultivated and non- cultivated surface of the earth and with living organisms and other physical phenomena is increasingly seen as an essential aspect both of historical scholarship and in adjacent fields, such as the history of science, anthropology, geography and sociology. Environmental history can be of considerable assistance in efforts to comprehend the traumatic environmental difficulties facing us today, while making us reconsider the bounds of possibility open to humans over time and space in their interaction with different environments. This series explores these interactions in studies that together touch on all parts of the globe and all manner of environments including the built environment. Books in the series come from a wide range of fields of scholarship, from the sciences, social sciences and humanities. The series particularly encourages interdisciplinary projects that emphasize historical engagement with science and other fields of study. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14570
Carolyn M. King
Invasive Predators in New Zealand Disaster on Four Small Paws
Carolyn M. King Environmental Research Institute University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand
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