The archaeology of environmental change : socionatural legacies of degradation and resilience /

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This book shows that today's challenges of causing and reacting to environmental change, can be better approached through an attempt to understand how societies in the past dealt with similar circumstances. The contributors draw on archaeological research in multiple regions--North America, Mes...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fisher, Christopher T., Hill, J. Brett (James Brett), 1960-, Feinman, Gary M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Environmental archaeology.
Social archaeology.
Environmental degradation > History.
Human ecology > History.
Archéologie de l'environnement.
Archéologie sociale.
Environnement > Dégradation > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Environmental archaeology
Environmental degradation
Human ecology
Social archaeology
Umweltarchäologie
Paléoenvironnement.
Écologie humaine > Histoire.
Miljöarkeologi.
Social arkeologi.
Humanekologi.
Miljöförstöring > historia.
Aufsatzsammlung.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : environmental studies for twenty-first-century conservation / Christopher T. Fisher, J. Brett Hill, and Gary M. Feinman
  • The resilience of socioecological landscapes : lessons from the Hohokam / Charles L. Redman, Margaret C. Nelson, and Ann P. Kinzig
  • What is an "environmental crisis" to an archaeologist? / Sander E. van der Leeuw
  • Beyond sustainability : managed wetlands and water harvesting in ancient Mesoamerica / Vernon L. Scarborough
  • Creating a stable landscape : soil conservation and adaptation among the ancient Maya / Nicholas Dunning [and others]
  • Farming the margins : on the social causes and consequences of soil-management strategies / Tina L. Thurston
  • The human-wildlife conundrum : a view from East Africa / Chapurukha M. Kusimba
  • What difference does environmental degradation make? : change and its significance in Transjordan / J. Brett Hill
  • The earliest residents of Cyprus : ecological pariahs or harmonious settlers? / Alan H. Simmons
  • Social changes triggered by Younger Dryas and the early Holocene climatic fluctuations in the Near East / O. Bar-Yosef
  • Abandoning the garden : the population/land degradation fallacy as applied to the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin in Mexico / Christopher T. Fisher
  • Hohokam and Pima-Maricopa irrigation agriculturalists : maladaptive or resilient societies? / John C. Ravesloot, J. Andrew Darling, and Michael R. Waters.

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