Edward Percy Stebbing

Cover of 1911 book

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.^[1]

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Book cover drawn by Stebbing

Works

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A hunting trophy

Injurious Insects of Indian Forests (1899) online
Insect intruders in Indian homes (1909) online
Stalks in the Himalayas (1911) (New York Times review
Jungle By-ways in India (1911) online
Indian forest insects of economic importance. Coleoptera (1914) online
British Forestry (1916) online
At the Serbian front in Macedonia (1917) online^[2]
From Czar to Bolshevik (1918) online
The Forests of India (3 volumes)
The forests of West Africa and the Sahara: a Study of Modern Conditions (London and Edinburgh, 1937)

The standard author abbreviation Stebbing is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[3]

References

↑ van Beusekom, Monica M (1999) From underpopulation to overpopulation. Environmental History. Apr 1999
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