The archaeology of environmental change : socionatural legacies of degradation and resilience
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Feinman, Gary M.
Fisher, Christopher T. Hill, J. Brett (James Brett), 1960- |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2009.
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| Umfang/Format: |
vi, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0-8165-2676-1 9780816526765 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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 ... [et al.]
- 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 Patzcuaro 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.
