The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action (Historical Ecology Series) - Tapa blanda

 
9780231112093: The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action (Historical Ecology Series)
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ISBN 10: 0231112092 ISBN 13: 9780231112093
Editorial: Columbia University Press, 2000

Sinopsis

Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other environmental changes and to synthesize the implications of these historical patterns for present-day sustainability spurred a conference of the world's leading scholars on the topic. The Way the Wind Blows is the rich result of that conference. Articles discuss the dynamics of climate, human perceptions of and responses to the environment, and issues of sustainability and resiliency. These themes are illustrated through discussions of human societies around the world and throughout history.

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Acerca del autor

Roderick J. McIntosh is professor of anthropology at Rice University. Joseph A. Tainter is project leader of Cultural Heritage Research at the Rocky Mountain Research Station. Susan Keech McIntosh is professor of anthropology at Rice University and the director of Scientia: an institute for the history of science and culture.

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Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other environmental changes and to synthesize the implications of these historical patterns for present-day sustainability spurred a conference of the world's leading scholars on the topic. The Way the Wind Blows is the rich result of that conference.

Articles discuss the dynamics of climate, human perceptions of and responses to the environment, and issues of sustainability and resiliency. These themes are illustrated through discussions of human societies around the world and throughout history.

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Editorial
Columbia University Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0231112092
ISBN 13 
9780231112093
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
432
Editor
McIntosh Roderick J., McIntosh Susan Keech, Tainter Joseph
Contacto del fabricante
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