ABSTRACT
In the twenty-first century because of global warming, widespread environmental concern has become the focus of all nations and communities. But hundred years back this very relationship between man and nature, now more holistically called 'the environment' was very differently premised. Admittedly environment and politics have shared a determining relationship in defining policies, protection and usage. Environmental history has emerged from crisis. Its objective was not only to provide a narrative of the past but also to understand that what has happened in the past is linked inextricably to the present and future. At the beginning of the twentieth century a major chunk of Scientists believed that climates of the world had been essentially constant over at least five thousand years. In the next eighty years the belief was demolished. One of the major themes of environmental research was forests.
