Richard Grove

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]

  1. ^ OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Accessed: 11 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Green Imperialism, R. Grove". Scribd.com. Retrieved 1 July 2012.