"Considerable interest in , , and s arose amongst European colonialists who witnessed some of the consequences of Western-style economic development in tropical lands (Grove, 1997). However, the extent of human influence on the environment was not explored in detail and on the basis of sound data until George Perkins Marsh ... published ' (1864), in which he dealt with human influence on the woods, the waters, and the sands."
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