Richard H. Grove | |
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![]() Grove in 2020 | |
Born | 21 July 1955 |
Died | 25 June 2020 | (aged 64)
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Green Imperialism (1995) |
Spouse | Vinita Damodaran |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Environmental history |
Institutions | Australian 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) |
Website | www |
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]