Richard Grove

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Richard H. Grove
Grove in 2020
Born21 July 1955 (1955-07-21)
Cambridge, England[1]
Died25 June 2020(2020-06-25) (aged 64)
CitizenshipBritish
Alma mater
Known forGreen Imperialism (1995)
SpouseVinita Damodaran
Scientific career
FieldsEnvironmental history
InstitutionsAustralian National University, University of Sussex
Thesis Conservation and colonial expansion: a study of the evolution of environmental attitudes and conservation policies on St Helena, Mauritius and in India, 1660–1860  (1988)
Websitewww.sussex.ac.uk/cweh/people/richardgrove

Richard Hugh Grove (21 July 1955 – 25 June 2020) was a British historian, environmental activist, and one of the contemporary founders of environmental history as an academic field. His prizewinning book, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism 1600–1860 (1995), was considered a pioneering account of colonial environmental impacts and an origin for early western ideas on environmentalism.[2]

Life and work

Grove was the son of Cambridge climatologists

Jean Mary Grove, née Clark, and was married to historian Vinita Damodaran of the University of Sussex. Educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, his interdisciplinary training included a BA in geography from Hertford College, Oxford (1979), MSc in Conservation biology from University College London (1980) and a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge (1988).[3]

Grove was a Fellow of Clare Hall, and College Lecturer at

Woodrow Wilson Center
for International Scholars in Washington DC in the 1990s.

Grove became Professor and founded the Centre for World Environmental History at the University of Sussex in May 2002.

Cooma, Australia, on his way back from the Manning Clark property "Ness" on the far south coast of New South Wales, and had been severely incapacitated from that time.[5]

Academic contributions

Grove published his first book at the age of 21 on The Cambridgeshire Coprolite Mining Rush.

British colonies. Plant transfers by colonial actors were very significant, and helped create environmental awareness among imperial powers. His major argument is summarised in The Culture of Islands and the History of Environmental Concern,[7]
a paper presented at the Harvard Seminar on Environmental Values, in 2000.

A more recent strand of investigation concerned the historical impact of El Nino events. His 2000 book with Australian geologist, John Chappell, documented the local effects of the disastrous 1997–1998 El Nino in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

Grove founded the academic journal, Environment and History.[8]

A festschrift volume, The British Empire and the natural world: environmental encounters in South Asia, edited by Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damadaran, and Rohan D'Souza, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. The volume recognises Grove's substantial contribution to environmental history before his accident.[6]

Key publications

References

  1. ^ OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Accessed: 11 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Green Imperialism, R. Grove". Scribd.com. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  3. ^ Grove, Richard Hugh. 1988. Conservation and colonial expansion : a study of the evolution of environmental attitudes and conservation policies on St Helena, Mauritius and in India, 1660–1860. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge, Faculty of History.
  4. ^ "Centre for World Environmental History", University of Sussex. Accessed: 10 December 2012.
  5. ^ "H-Net Discussion Networks – Richard Grove". H-net.msu.edu. 15 March 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
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  7. ^ "The Culture of Islands and the History of Environmental Concern". ecoethics.net. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  8. doi:10.3197/096734095779522726
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