Historical Ecology addresses environmental change, one of the most pressing problems faced by the world community, as pollution, global warming, species extinction, and massive disruption of critical ecosystems become commonplace events. This book represents a critical step along the road to a new environmental science.
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Carole L. Crumley and her team of optimistic anthropologists have created a meaningful new approach to the study of humanity and the environment aimed in large part at policymakers… This highly useful volume … should show aspiring anthropologists that their work can make a difference to the world as we approach the new millennium. --Thomas E. Levy, Current Anthropology Vol. 38, no. 1 (February 1997)
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Contributors are Carole L. Crumley, Joel D. Gunn, Fekri A. Hassan, Alice E. Ingerson, William H. Marquardt, Thomas H. McGovern, Thomas C. Patterson, Peter R. Schmidt, and Bruce M. Winterhalder.
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Environmental change is arguably the most pressing and potentially disastrous problem facing the global community. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
billion cubic meters per day, air mass boundary, historical ecology, probable population, global average temperature, low floods, historical analogs, pasture productivity, global energy balance, environmental historians, ecological anthropology, climatic episodes, coastal ridges, iron smelters, iron tower Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Norse Greenland, Early Iron Age, New Kingdom, Old Kingdom, United States, Lake Ikimba, North Atlantic, Medieval Climatic Optimum, Middle Ages, World War, Lake Victoria, Roman Empire, Nile Valley, West Greenland, Great Lakes, Charlotte Harbor, Conservation History, East Africa, Richard White, Greco-Roman Egypt, Little Ice Age, New World, North America, Old World, Calusa News New!
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Environmental change is arguably the most pressing and potentially disastrous problem facing the global community. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
billion cubic meters per day, air mass boundary, historical ecology, probable population, global average temperature, low floods, historical analogs, pasture productivity, global energy balance, environmental historians, ecological anthropology, climatic episodes, coastal ridges, iron smelters, iron tower Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Norse Greenland, Early Iron Age, New Kingdom, Old Kingdom, United States, Lake Ikimba, North Atlantic, Medieval Climatic Optimum, Middle Ages, World War, Lake Victoria, Roman Empire, Nile Valley, West Greenland, Great Lakes, Charlotte Harbor, Conservation History, East Africa, Richard White, Greco-Roman Egypt, Little Ice Age, New World, North America, Old World, Calusa News New!
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- Advances in Historical Ecology by William L. Balee on 6 pages
- Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives (Social Archaeology) by Wendy Ashmore on 4 pages
- Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination by Robert Markley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Environment And Sustainable Development In The New Central Europe (Austrian and Habsburg Studies) by Zbigniew Bochniarz on page 198, and Back Matter
- Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology by Peter R. Schmidt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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