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John F. Richards
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 43
Citations - 5533
John F. Richards is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Empire & Population. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 41 publications receiving 5220 citations. Previous affiliations of John F. Richards include University of Wisconsin-Madison & University of Chicago.
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The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths
Eric F. Lambin,Billie Turner,Helmut Geist,Samuel Babatunde Agbola,Arild Angelsen,John W. Bruce,Oliver T. Coomes,Rodolfo Dirzo,Günther Fischer,Carl Folke,P.S. George,Katherine Homewood,Jacques Imbernon,Rik Leemans,Xiubin Li,Emilio F. Moran,Michael Mortimore,P. S. Ramakrishnan,John F. Richards,Helle Skånes,Will Steffen,Glenn Davis Stone,Uno Svedin,Tom A. Veldkamp,Coleen Vogel,Jianchu Xu +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors track some of the major myths on driving forces of land cover change and propose alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence, concluding that neither population nor poverty alone constitute the sole and major underlying causes of land-cover change worldwide.
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The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years
Billie Turner,William C. Clark,Robert W. Kates,John F. Richards,Joela Mathews,William B. Meyer +5 more
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The Mughal Empire
TL;DR: The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history as discussed by the authors and it was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughals ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions.
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The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of early modern world environmental history, focusing on the early Modern World and its early modern environment. But their focus is on land use and landscape change and energy transformation.