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 to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781611323887
Series Statement:
New Frontiers in Historical Ecology Series
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.
