Historical Ecology Series – serie
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11 produkter
The Way the Wind Blows
Climate Change, History, and Human Action
Av Roderick McIntosh, Joseph Tainter m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
847 kr
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Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic …
Advances in Historical Ecology
Häftad, 2002
713 kr
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Ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between living and nonliving elements of the earth. For years, however, the discipline either neglected the human element entirely or presumed its effect on natural ecosystems to be invariably negative. Among social scientists, notably …
Imperfect Balance
Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas
Häftad, 2000
1030 kr
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We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a …
The Way the Wind Blows
Climate Change, History, and Human Action
Av Roderick McIntosh, Joseph Tainter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
3146 kr
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Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic …
Trekking Through History
The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador
Av Laura Rival
Inbunden, 2002
1239 kr
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The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, they have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as …
Trekking Through History
The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador
Av Laura Rival
Häftad, 2002
872 kr
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The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, they have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as …
Kinship with Monkeys
The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia
Häftad, 2003
770 kr
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Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent fifteen months living among the Guaja, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is this ethnographic study of the extraordinary relationship between the Guaja Indians and monkeys. …
Way the Wind Blows
Climate Change, History, and Human Action
Av Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter m. fl.
E-bok, 2000
662 kr
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Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic …
Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology
Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands
Av William L. Balée, Clark L. Erickson
E-bok, 2006
1324 kr
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This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural …
Kinship with Monkeys
The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia
E-bok, 2003
596 kr
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Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent fifteen months living among the Guajá, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is this ethnographic study of the extraordinary relationship between the Guajá Indians and monkeys. …
Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology
Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands
Av William L. Balée, Clark L. Erickson
Inbunden, 2006
801 kr
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This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural …
