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 This page investigates the long-term relationship between economic activity and the natural environment, examining how industrialisation, agriculture, trade, and warfare have transformed landscapes, ecosystems, and climate across time. It covers theories of externalities and sustainability, valuation of ecosystem services, resource extraction and its consequences, environmental injustice in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and the emergence of environmental policy and social movements. The page also connects environmental economic history to contemporary debates on climate change, sustainability, and the green economy. Pre-university and early university students will develop critical tools for understanding why environmental degradation has often accompanied economic growth, and how historical patterns inform today's urgent policy challenges.

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