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The way the wind blows : climate, history, and human action / edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh.
Van Pelt Library QC981.8.C5 W395 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Historical ecology series
- The historical ecology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Experts in a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences--including geology, climatology, history, and anthropology--consider such topics as the dynamics of climate, human perceptions of and responses to the environment, and issues of sustainability and resiliency.
- Contents:
- Climate, history, and human action / Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh
- Climate variability during the Holocene : an update / Robert B. Dunbar
- Complexity theory and sociocultural change in the American Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean
- Environmental perception and human responses in history and prehistory / Fekri Hassan
- Social memory in Mande / Roderick J. McIntosh
- Memories, abstractions, and conceptualization of ecological crisis in the Mande world / Téréba Togola
- From garden to globe : linking time and space with meaning and memory / Carole L. Crumley
- Chinese attitudes toward climate / Cho-yun Hsu
- Three rivers : subregional variations in earth system impacts in the Southwestern Maya lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champotón watersheds) / Joel D. Gunn and William J. Folan
- The lowland Maya civilization : historical consciousness and environment / David Freidel and Justine Shaw
- Social repsonses to climate change among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California / John R. Johnson
- Global change, history, and sustainability / Joseph A. Tainter
- Land degradation as a socionatural process / S.E. van der Leeuw and the ARCHAEOMEDES Research Team.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231112084
- 0231112092
- OCLC:
- 42772278
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