ISBN:
9789048505081
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (471 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Mappae Mundi : Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective, Myths, Maps and Models
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mappae mundi
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Human ecology
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Anthropology
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Anthropology
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Human ecology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Lebensraum
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Umweltveränderung
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Sozialökologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Biosphäre
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Mensch
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Umweltveränderung
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Sozialökologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Never before in human society has the interaction of people and their natural environment been so complex. It is precisely this diversity that creates a need for a synthesis that transcends the boundaries of traditional academic fields. "Mappae Mundi.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors'Acknowledgement -- 1. Introduction: Towards a Historical View of Humanity and the Biosphere -- 1.1. A new sense of change -- 1.2. The static character of ancient world views -- 1.3. Myths, maps, and models -- 2. Introductory Overview: the Expanding Anthroposphere -- 2.1. Life before humans -- 2.1.1. The first environmental crisis in the biosphere -- 2.1.2. Continental drift -- 2.2. Early humans and their first big impact: fire -- 2.2.1. Human origins and extensive growth -- 2.2.2. Intensive growth: technology, organization and civilization -- 2.2.3. The original domestication of fire -- 2.2.4. Long-term consequences -- 2.2.5. Regimes -- 2.3. Intensified human impact: agrarianization -- 2.3.1. Emergence -- 2.3.2. Continuities -- 2.3.3. Sequences -- 2.3.4. Hypertrophy and atrophy -- 2.4. Industrialization: the rise of the third regime -- 3. The Holocene: Global Change and Local Response -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Holocene climate and climate change -- 3.3. Climate change and human populations: Equatorial Africa -- 3.3.1. From the Late Glacial towards the middle-Holocene climatic 'optimum' -- 3.3.2. Environmental drying about 4000 yr BP and increasing vegetation degradation: the transition to the present -- 3.4. Early human-environment interactions: the Americas -- 3.4.1. Environmental and cultural change in western Peru -- 3.4.2. Late-Holocene environmental and Mayan cultures -- 3.5. The Vera Basin in Spain: 10,000 years of environmental history -- 3.6. Conclusions -- 4. Environment and the Great Transition: Agrarianization -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Environment and human habitat -- 4.2.1. Mountains, hills and plains -- 4.2.2. Rivers, lakes and coasts - and the sea -- 4.2.3. Steppe and savannah lands -- 4.2.4. Forest peoples -- 4.3. The agricultural transition: some narratives from science.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Editors'Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction: Towards a Historical View of Humanity and the Biosphere; 2. Introductory Overview: the Expanding Anthroposphere; 3. The Holocene: Global Change and Local Response; 4. Environment and the Great Transition: Agrarianization; 5. Exploring the Past: on Methods and Concepts; 6. Increasing Social Complexity; 7. Empire: the Romans in the Mediterranean; 8. Understanding: Fragments of a Unifying Perspective; 9. Population and Environment in Asia since 1600 AD; 10. The Past 250 Years: Industrialization and Globalization
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Back to Nature? The Punctuated History of a Natural Monument12. Conclusions: Retrospect and Prospects; Notes; Bibliography; About the Authors; Index of Subjects; Index of Names; Index of Geographic Names;
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