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Human Ecology in the Wadi al-Hasa : Land Use and Abandonment through the Holocene /
"The Wadi al-Hasa, a large canyon draining the Transjordan Plateau into the Dead Sea, has been the location of repeated cycles of settlement and land use for thousands of years. This book focuses on changing land-use patterns and their relationship to socio-political organization. Using a combi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Land use and land abandonment : a case study from west-central Jordan
- The costs and benefits of land management through time, space, and society
- History of the Hasa : from the origins of agriculture to the collapse of empires
- The evolution of the physical landscape
- A history of abandonment and resettlement
- A geographic information system analysis of potential erosion
- Reflections on the significance and causes of environmental degradation
- Conclusions.