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1 online resource (xvi, 429 pages) : illustrations |
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Historical ecology series |
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Historical ecology series.
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Historical ecology : premises and postulates -- Ecological history and historical ecology : diachronic modeling versus historical explanation -- A historical-ecological perspective on epidemic disease -- Forged in fire : history, land, and anthropogenic fire -- Diachronic ecotones and anthropogenic landscapes in Amazonia : contesting the consciousness of conservation -- Metaphor and metamorphism : some thoughts on environmental metahistory -- The rat that ate Louisiana : aspects of historical ecology in the Mississippi River Delta -- Cultural, human, and historical ecology in the Great Basin : fifty years of ideas about ten thousand years of prehistory -- Ancient and modern hunter-gatherers of lowland South America : an evolutionary problem -- Potential versus actual vegetation : human behavior in a landscape medium -- Domestication as a historical and symbolic process : wild gardens and cultivated forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon -- Independent yet interdependent "Isode" : the historical ecology of traditional Piaroa settlement pattern -- Whatever happened to the Stone Age? : steel tools and Yanomami historical ecology -- Missionary activity and Indian labor in the upper Rio Negro of Brazil, 1680-1980 : a historical-ecological approach -- Cultural persistence and environmental change : the Otomí of the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico -- The great cow explosion in Rajasthan -- The historical ecology of Thailand : increasing thresholds of human environmental impact from prehistory to the present |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Human ecology -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Landscape assessment -- History
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Landscape changes -- History
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Biotic communities.
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Environmental degradation.
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Ecosystem
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Biotic communities
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Environmental degradation
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Human ecology
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Landscape assessment
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Landscape changes
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Balée, William L., 1954-
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