Time And Complexity In Historical Ecology
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Author |
: William Balée |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2006-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231509619 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231509618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology by : William Balée
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 environment. Contributors examine how alterations in the natural world mirror human cultures, societies, and languages. Treating the landscape like a text, these researchers decipher patterns and meaning in the Ecuadorian Andes, Amazonia, the desert coast of Peru, and other regions in the neotropics. They show how local peoples have changed the landscape over time to fit their needs by managing and modifying species diversity, enhancing landscape heterogeneity, and controlling ecological disturbance. In turn, the environment itself becomes a form of architecture rich with historical and archaeological significance. Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology explores thousands of years of ecological history while also addressing important contemporary issues, such as biodiversity and genetic variation and change. Engagingly written and expertly researched, this book introduces and exemplifies a unique method for better understanding the link between humans and the biosphere.
Author |
: Carole L. Crumley |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108420983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108420982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology by : Carole L. Crumley
This book presents a practical, holistic research framework to help us both understand our past and build an appealing human future.
Author |
: Denise P Schaan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2016-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315420523 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131542052X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia by : Denise P Schaan
Scholars have long insisted that the Amazonian ecosystem placed severe limits on the size and complexity of its ancient cultures, but leading researcher Denise Schaan reverses that view, revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex than anyone previously dreamed.
Author |
: Christian Isendahl |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 732 |
Release |
: 2019-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191653346 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191653349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology by : Christian Isendahl
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology presents theoretical discussions, methodological outlines, and case-studies describing the field of overlap between historical ecology and the emerging sub-discipline of applied archaeology to highlight how modern environments and landscapes have been shaped by humans. Historical ecology is based on the recognition that humans are not only capable of modifying their environments, but that all environments on earth have already been directly or indirectly modified. This includes anthropogenic climate change, widespread deforestations, and species extinctions, but also very local alterations, the effects of which may last a few years, or may have legacies lasting centuries or more. With contributions from anthropologists, archaeologists, human geographers, and historians, this volume focuses not just on defining human impacts in the past, but on the ways that understanding these changes can help inform contemporary practices and development policies. Some chapters present examples of how ancient or current societies have modified their environments in sustainable ways, while others highlight practices that had unintended long-term consequences. The possibilities of learning from these practices are discussed, as is the potential of using the long history of human resource exploitation as a method for building or testing models of future change. The volume offers overviews for students, researchers, and professionals with an interest in conservation or development projects who want to understand what practical insights can be drawn from history, and who seek to apply their work to contemporary issues.
Author |
: Peter W. Stahl |
Publisher |
: University Press of Florida |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2020-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813057385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813057388 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands by : Peter W. Stahl
The Galápagos Islands are one of the world’s premiere nature attractions, home to unique ecosystems widely thought to be untouched and pristine. Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands reveals that the archipelago is not as isolated as many imagine, examining how centuries of human occupation have transformed its landscape. This book shows that the island chain has been a part of global networks since its discovery in 1535 and traces the changes caused by human colonization. Central to this history is the sugar plantation Hacienda El Progreso on San Cristóbal Island. Here, zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical evidence documents the introduction of exotic species and landscape transformations, and material evidence attests that inhabitants maintained connections to the outside world for consumer goods. Beyond illuminating the human history of the islands, the authors also look at the impact of visitors to Galápagos National Park today, raising questions about tourism’s role in biological conservation, preservation, and restoration. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson
Author |
: T. F. H. Allen |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 2017-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226489711 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022648971X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hierarchy by : T. F. H. Allen
Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals interact both with each other and with the myriad biotic and abiotic components of their surroundings across geographies as well as spatial and temporal scales. In the face of such complexity, ecologists have long sought tools to streamline and aggregate information. Among them, in the 1980s, T. F. H. Allen and Thomas B. Starr implemented a burgeoning concept from business administration: hierarchy theory. Cutting-edge when Hierarchy was first published, their approach to unraveling complexity is now integrated into mainstream ecological thought. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition of Hierarchy reflects the assimilation of hierarchy theory into ecological research, its successful application to the understanding of complex systems, and the many developments in thought since. Because hierarchies and levels are habitual parts of human thinking, hierarchy theory has proven to be the most intuitive and tractable vehicle for addressing complexity. By allowing researchers to look explicitly at only the entities and interconnections that are relevant to a specific research question, hierarchically informed data analysis has enabled a revolution in ecological understanding. With this new edition of Hierarchy, that revolution continues.
Author |
: Helen Kopnina |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 509 |
Release |
: 2016-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317667964 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317667964 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology by : Helen Kopnina
Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions. This volume illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education. This volume enables scholars and students quick access to both established and trending environmental anthropological explorations into theory, methodology and practice.
Author |
: N Thomas Håkansson |
Publisher |
: Left Coast Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2014-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611323863 |
ISBN-13 |
: 161132386X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Landesque Capital by : N Thomas Håkansson
This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ancient to contemporary times. They assess not only degradation but also the social, political, and economic institutions and contexts that make sustainability possible. Offering tightly edited, original contributions from leading scholars, this book will have a lasting influence on the study long-term human-environment relations in the human and natural sciences.
Author |
: Johannes Lehmann |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 510 |
Release |
: 2006-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402025976 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402025971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Amazonian Dark Earths by : Johannes Lehmann
Dark Earths are a testament to vanished civilizations of the Amazon Basin, but may also answer how large societies could sustain intensive agriculture in an environment of infertile soils. This book examines their origin, properties, and management. Questions remain: were they intentionally produced or a by-product of habitation. Additional new and multidisciplinary perspectives by leading experts may pave the way for the next revolution in soil management in the humid tropics.
Author |
: Luciano M. Verdade |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2014-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783642547515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3642547516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Applied Ecology and Human Dimensions in Biological Conservation by : Luciano M. Verdade
This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to biodiversity governance. The authors discuss intriguing evolutionary questions, which involve the sometimes surprising adaptive capacity of certain organisms to dwell in altered and/or changing environments that apparently lost most of their structure and functionality. Space and time heterogeneities are considered in order to understand the patterns of distribution and abundance of species and the various processes that mold them. The book also discusses at which level—from genes to the landscape, including individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems—men should intervene in nature in order to prevent the loss of biodiversity.