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Geography

2015

Bridgewater State University

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The Environmental Impacts Of Colonialism, Lawrence Wood Dec 2015

The Environmental Impacts Of Colonialism, Lawrence Wood

Honors Program Theses and Projects

The politics of the global imperial era are having real-world environmental consequences globally, especially in the former colonies. Indifferent administration by overseas imperial powers transparently sought to enrich their home country with little to no thought about the long term environmental or political consequences for the colony. One of the main objectives of global imperialism, from the first Spanish colonies to the last of the British and Portuguese colonies, was the enhanced profitable extraction of resources. The industrial revolution fueled the need for colonial resource extraction. Industrialization and imperialism formed a positive feedback loop, in which one created a greater …


Illustrated Essay: Bridgewater's Third Nature And The Re-Wilding Of The Landscape, Brian Payne, Karen Callan May 2015

Illustrated Essay: Bridgewater's Third Nature And The Re-Wilding Of The Landscape, Brian Payne, Karen Callan

Bridgewater Review

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