Environment and History

Volume 1 February 1995 Number 1

EDITORIAL Richard Grove 1

FEATURES

Man Against the Sea: Natural and Anthropogenic Factors in the Changing Morphology of Harngzhou Bay, circa 1000-1800 Mark Elvin and Su Ninghu 3

Reading Forest History Backwards: The Interaction of Policy and Local Land Use in Guinea’s Forest-Savanna Mosaic, 1893-1993 James Fairhead and Melissa Leach 55

Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia Anthony Reid 93

In Our Own Image: The Environment and Society as Global Discourse Michael Redclift 111

BOOK REVIEW

Anna Bramwell The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West Malcolm Chase 125

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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. Contributions and editorial enquiries should be addressed to the editor, c/o the White Horse Press, 10 High Street, Knapwell, Cambridge CB3 8NR, UK. Fax 01954 267527. EDITOR Richard H. Grove, Australian National University & University of Cambridge email [email protected] (or [email protected]); fax 616 249 3051 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Marlene Buchy University College of North Wales Quentin Cronk University of Oxford Toyin Falola University of Texas Mahesh Rangarajan Nehru Memorial Institute Sarah Wilmot University of Cambridge REVIEWS EDITOR Jörn Sieglerschmidt Landesmuseum, Mannheim EDITORIAL BOARD William Beinart, University of Bristol; Peter Boomgaard, Royal Dutch Anthropological Institute; Peter Brimblecombe, University of East Anglia; Alfred Crosby, University of Texas; Mark Elvin, Australian National University; Madhav Gadgil, Indian Institute of Ecological Sciences; Ramachandra Guha, Nehru Memorial Institute; Michael Lacey, Smithsonian Institution; John Mackenzie, Lancaster University; Christian Pfister, University of Bern; Jacques Pouchepadass, CNRS, Paris; Oliver Rackham, University of Cambridge; Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge; Simon Schama, Columbia University; John Sheail, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood; Christopher Smout, University of St Andrews; Graeme Snooks, Australian National University; Joy Tukuhirwa, Makerere University, Uganda; Donald Worster, University of Kansas EDITORIAL ADVISERS Bridget Allchin, University of Cambridge; David Arnold, SOAS, University of London; George Benneh, University of Ghana; Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa; Evangelos Chrysos, University of Ionannina; Andrée Corvol, University of Paris; Elizabeth Flint, Duke University; Nicholas Jardine, University of Cambridge; Roy Macleod, University of Sydney; E.E. Manski, Stevoort, Belgium; Diego Moreno, University of Genoa; Joseph Powell, Monash University; Ravi Rajan, University of California at Berkeley; Richard Tucker, University of Michigan Luis Urteaga, University of Barcelona; Piers Vitebsky, University of Cambridge; J. Kathirithamby Wells, University of Malaysia SUBSCRIPTIONS Environment and History is published three times per year. ISSN 0967-3407. Annual subscription rates (1995) are £60/DM150/$US100 for institutions, or £30/DM75/$US50 for individuals at their private address. A discount of 20% is available to subscribers in G77 countries. Orders should be sent to The White Horse Press (subscriptions), 1 Strond, Isle of Harris, Scotland PA83 3UD.