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Description: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.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 responses 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action. To get started finding The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.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 responses 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action. To get started finding The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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