Edward Percy Stebbing

Edward Percy Stebbing FRGS, FZS (4 January 1872–21 March 1960) was a pioneering British forester and forest entomologist in India. He was among the first to warn of desertification and desiccation and wrote on "The encroaching Sahara". In 1935, he wrote of the "desert whose power is incalculable and whose silent and almost invisible approach must be difficult to estimate." He suggested that this was man-made and this led to a joint Anglo-French forestry mission from December 1936 to February 1937 that toured northern Nigeria and Niger to assess the danger of desertification. [van Beusekom, Monica M (1999) From underpopulation to overpopulation. Environmental History. Apr 1999]

Works

* Insect intruders in Indian homes (1909) [http://www.archive.org/details/insectintrudersi00stebrich online]
* Stalks in the Himalayas (1911) ( [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B06E7D81539E632A25750C0A9649D946096D6CF&oref=slogin New York Times review]
* Jungle By-ways in India (1911) [http://www.archive.org/details/junglebywaysinin00stebrich online]
* Indian forest insects of economic importance. Coleoptera (1914) [http://www.archive.org/details/indianforestinse00stebuoft online]
* British Forestry (1916) [http://www.archive.org/details/britishforestryi00stebiala online]
*From Czar to Bolshevik (1918) [http://www.archive.org/details/fromczartobolshe00stebrich online]
* The Forests of India (3 volumes)
* The forests of West Africa and the Sahara: a Study of Modern Conditions (London and Edinburgh, 1937)

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