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Author:   I. Peter Martini ,  Ward Chesworth
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2011 ed.
Weight:   1.037kg
ISBN:  

9789400790254

ISBN 10:   9400790252
Pages:   478
Publication Date:   26 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of contributors List of reviewers Part I. Introduction 1. Summaries of the contributions and a few considerations; I. Peter Martini and Ward Chesworth 2. A semantic introduction; Ward Chesworth 3. Womb, belly and landscape in the Anthropocene; Ward Chesworth Part II. The Mediterranean and European world-arid Mediterranean lands 4. Human responses to climatically-driven landscape change and resource scarcity: Learning from the past and planning for the future; Nickolas Brooks 5. Human communities in a drying landscape: Holocene climate change and cultural response in the central Sahara; Mauro Cremaschi and Andrea Zerboni 6. The desertification of the Egyptian Sahara during the Holocene (the last 10,000 years) and its influence on the rise of Egyptian civilization; Michael Brookfield 7. Paleoenvironments and prehistory in the Holocene of SE Arabia; Andrew S. Goudie and  Adrian G. Parker 8. Human paleoecology in the ancient metal-smelting and farming complex in the Wadi Faynan, SW Jordan, at the desert margin in the Middle East; Chris Hunt and Hwedi el-Rishi 9. Empire and Environment in the Northern Fertile Crescent; Tony J. Wilkinson Part III. The Mediterranean and European world warm-temperate Mediterranean lands 10. The interplay between environment and people from Neolithic to classical times in Greece and Albania; Eric Fouache and Kosmas Pavlopoulos 11. The Nuragic people: Their settlements, economic activities and use of the land, Sardinia, Italy; Anna Depalmas and Rita T. Melis 12. Floods, mudflows, landslides: adaptation of Etruscan–Roman communities to hydrogeological hazards in the Arno River catchment (Tuscany, Central Italy); Marco Benvenuti et al 13. Landscape influenceson the development of the Medieval–Early Renaissance city-states of Pisa, Florence, and Siena, Italy; I. Peter Martini et al 14. Paleo-hazards in the coastal Mediterranean: a geoarchaeological approach; Christophe Morhange and Nick Marriner 15. Mount Etna, Sicily: Landscape evolution and hazard responses in the pre-industrial era; David K. Chester, Angus M. Duncan and Peter A. James Part IV. The Mediterranean and European world cool-temperate European lands 16. Romanian Carpathian landscapes and cultures; Adrian Cioacă and Mihaela S. Dinu 17. Sea-level rise and the response of the Dutch people – Adaptive strategies based on geomorphologic principles give sustainable solutions; Pieter D. Jungerius 18. Perception of volcanic eruptions in Iceland; Thorvaldur Thordarson Part V South and East Asia 19. Holocene environmental changes and the evolution of the Neolithic cultures in China; Duowen Mo et al. 20. Landscape and subsistence in Japanese history; Gina L. Barnes 21. Evolution of hydraulic societies in the ancient Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka; P.B. Dharmasena 22. Disease in history: the case of the Austronesian expansion in the Pacific; Robert Sallares Part VI. Central and North America 23. Farms and forests: Spatial and temporal perspectives on ancient Maya landscapes; Nicholas P. Dunning and Timothy Beach 24. Water follows the people: Analysis of water use in the Western Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA; Ellen Wohl 25. Frozen coasts and the development of Inuit culture in the North American Arctic; Robert W. Park Glossary Index Color Plate Section

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From the reviews: The editors of this book compile a multidisciplinary collection of case studies that examine human and environment relationships over different time periods, and focus particularly on how adaptive behaviors change in response to environmental change. ... Landscapes and Societies would be a valuable book for students and scholars who want to better understand the processes of societal and landscape change through an integrative analysis of the physical environment and human activities over time. (Kimberly E. Medley, Landscape Ecology, Vol. 27, 2012)

From the reviews: The editors of this book compile a multidisciplinary collection of case studies that examine human and environment relationships over different time periods, and focus particularly on how adaptive behaviors change in response to environmental change. ... Landscapes and Societies would be a valuable book for students and scholars who want to better understand the processes of societal and landscape change through an integrative analysis of the physical environment and human activities over time. (Kimberly E. Medley, Landscape Ecology, Vol. 27, 2012)

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