ISBN:
0231135629
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0231509618
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9780231135627
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9780231509619
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 417 p.)
Series Statement:
Historical ecology series
DDC:
304.2/098
Keywords:
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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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology
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Agriculture
;
Ethnobiology
;
Human ecology
;
Land use
;
Landscape changes
;
Rain forest ecology
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Ökologie
;
Human ecology Congresses
;
Human ecology Congresses
;
Rain forest ecology Congresses
;
Ethnobiology Congresses
;
Agriculture Congresses
;
Land use Congresses
;
Landscape changes Congresses
;
Humanökologie
;
Lateinamerika
;
Lateinamerika
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Lateinamerika
;
Humanökologie
Note:
Papers originally presented at the Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology at the Neotropical Ecology Institute of Tulane University in October 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/bale13562
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