Human impact on ancient environments
Häftad bok. The University of Arizona Press. 1999. 239 sidor.
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Några enstaka understrykningar i svag blyerts. Engelsk text
Threats to biodiversity, food shortages, urban sprawl . . . lessons for environmental problems that confront us today may well be found in the past. The archaeological record contains hundreds of situations in which societies developed lsustainable relationships with their environments—and thousands in which the relationships were destructive. Charles Redman shows us that much can be learned from peoples who, through seemingly rational decisions, degraded their environments and threatened their own survival. By discussing archaeological case studies from around the world—from the deforestation of the Mayan lowlands to the almost total depletion of resources on Easter Island — he reveals the coevolution of culture and environment and shows the impact that prehistoricpeoples had on their world.
