The way the wind blows : climate, history, and human action /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors:	McIntosh, Roderick J., Tainter, Joseph A., McIntosh, Susan Keech
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]
Series:	Historical ecology series.
Subjects:	Climatic changes. Nature > Effect of human beings on. Human ecology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Climate, history, and human action / Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh
Climate variability during the Holocene : an update / Robert B. Dunbar
Complexity theory and sociocultural change in the American Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean
Environmental perception and human responses in history and prehistory / Fekri Hassan
Social memory in Mande / Roderick J. McIntosh
Memories, abstractions, and conceptualization of ecological crisis in the Mande world / Téréba Togola
From garden to globe : linking time and space with meaning and memory / Carole L. Crumley
Chinese attitudes toward climate / Cho-yun Hsu
Three rivers : subregional variations in earth system impacts in the Southwestern Maya lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champotón watersheds) / Joel D. Gunn and William J. Folan
The lowland Maya civilization : historical consciousness and environment / David Freidel and Justine Shaw
Social repsonses to climate change among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California / John R. Johnson
Global change, history, and sustainability / Joseph A. Tainter
Land degradation as a socionatural process / S.E. van der Leeuw and the ARCHAEOMEDES Research Team.