Northwest lands, northwest peoples : readings in environmental history /

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Annotation It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment-in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the nort...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goble, Dale, Hirt, Paul W., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, ©1999.
Temas:
Human ecology > Northwest, Pacific.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Forestry.
Ecology
Human ecology
Umweltgeografie
Gesellschaft
Entwicklung
Geschichte
Écologie humaine > États-Unis > Pacifique, Côte du.
Environnement > États-Unis > Pacifique, Côte du.
Northwest, Pacific > Environmental conditions.
Pacific Northwest
USA > Nordweststaaten
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the Pacific Northwest stage: the influence of the natural environment / Eric C. Ewert
  • Place: an argument for bioregional history / Dan Flores
  • A natural history of the Puget Sound basin / Arthur R. Kruckeberg
  • From where we are standing: the sense of place and environmental history / William L. Lang
  • Willamette Eden: the ambiguous legacy / William G. Robbins
  • Footprints and pathways: the urban imprint on the Pacific Northwest / Carl Abbott
  • Salmon, sedentism, and cultivation: toward an environmental prehistory of the Northwest Coast / Douglas Deur
  • Mobility as a factor limiting resource use on the Columbia Plateau / Eugene S. Hunn
  • Unusual gardens: the Nez Perce and wild horticulture on the Eastern Columbia plateau / Alan G. Marshall
  • Megafauna of the Columbia Basin, 1800-1840: Lewis and Clark in a game sink / Paul S. Martin and Christine R. Szuter
  • Land divided: Yakama tribal land use in the Federal Allotment era / Barbara Leibhardt Wester
  • Salmon in the Columbia basin: from abundance to extinction / Dale D. Goble
  • The Northwest's hydroelectric heritage / Michael C. Blumn
  • Fish first!: the changing ethics of ecosystem management / Carolyn Merchant
  • Ecological influences of the introduction of livestock on Pacific Northwest ecosystems / Kathleen A. Dwire, Bruce A. McIntosh, and J. Boone Kauffman
  • Environmental change in the northern Rockies: settlement and livestock grazing in southwestern Montana, 1860-1995 / William Wyckoff and Katherine Hansen
  • Creating a hybrid landscape: irrigated agriculture in Idaho / Mark Fiege
  • Cultural perception of the irrigated lanscape in the Pacific Northwest / Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
  • Human and ecological change in the inland Northwest forests / Nancy Langston
  • Getting out the cut: a history of National Forest management in the northern Rockies / Paul W. Hirt
  • Changing forests-changing needs: using the Pacific Northwests westside forests, past and present / Thomas R. Cox
  • Mining, environment, and historical change in the inland Northwest / Katherine G. Morrissey
  • Western smelters and the problem of smelter smoke / Katherine Aiken
  • Epilogue: environmental history and human perception / William Dietrich.

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