Synopsis Environmental history has gripped the attention of scholars all over the world. In this penultimate round of struggle for co-existence between man and nature, we have arrived at the last stage of survival strategy. Therefore, environmental issues has come to the forefront of all disciplines. History coordinates the views from the past to the future. It provides the hindsight to this emerging area of disconcert to mankind. Were this stages of environmental degradation? What lessons can we draw from the past experience? This volume proves this past for the answer to the future.