ISBN:
0231509618
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9780231509619
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 417 p.)
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ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The historical ecology series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology (2002 : Tulane University) Time and complexity in historical ecology
DDC:
304.2098
Keywords:
Human ecology Congresses
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Latin America
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Human ecology Congresses
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Tropics
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Rain forest ecology Congresses
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Latin America
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Ethnobiology Congresses
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Latin America
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Agriculture Congresses
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Tropics
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Land use Congresses
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Latin America
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Landscape changes Congresses
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Latin America
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Human ecology Congresses
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Human ecology Congresses
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Rain forest ecology Congresses
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Ethnobiology Congresses
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Agriculture Congresses
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Land use Congresses
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Landscape changes Congresses
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Human ecology Latin America
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Human ecology Tropics
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Rain forest ecology Latin America
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Ethnobiology Latin America
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Agriculture Tropics
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Land use Latin America
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Landscape changes Latin America
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Latin America
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Tropics
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SCIENCE ; Life Sciences ; Ecology
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Agriculture
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Ethnobiology
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Human ecology
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Land use
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Landscape changes
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Rain forest ecology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Latin America
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Tropics
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Electronic books Conference proceedings
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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 neotropi
Note:
Papers originally presented at the Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology at the Neotropical Ecology Institute of Tulane University in October 2002. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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