Keywords:
Landscape changes - Environmental aspects.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ancient to contemporary times. They assess not only degradation but also the social, political, and economic institutions and contexts that make sustainability possible. Offering tightly edited, original contributions from leading scholars, this book will have a lasting influence on the study long-term human-environment relations in the human and natural sciences.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781611323887
Series Statement:
New Frontiers in Historical Ecology Series ; v.5
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1659369
DDC:
304.23
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Landesque Capital: What is the Concept Good for? -- 1. Economics and the Process of Making Farmland -- 2. Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications -- 3. Taro Terraces, Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands -- 4. World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formationof Landesque Capital among the Ifugao, the Philippines -- 5. Large-Scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China, 1000-1800 -- 6. "Stonescape": Farmers' Differential Willingness to Invest in Landesque Capital in Nineteenth Century Sweden -- 7. The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study -- 8. The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life -- 9. Irrigated Fields are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet, Kenya -- 10. Correlating Landesque Capital and Ethno-Political Integration in Pre-Columbian South America -- 11. From Terraces to Trees: Ancient and Historical Landscape Changes in Southern Peru -- 12. The Antithesis of Degraded Land: Toward a Greener Conceptualization of Landesque Capital -- Postscript: The Future of Landesque Capital -- Index -- About the Authors and Editors.
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