Titre :	Time and complexity in historical ecology: studies in the Neotropical Lowlands
Type de document :	livre
Auteurs :	William Balée, Éditeur scientifique ; Clark L. Erickson, Éditeur scientifique
Editeur :	New York : Columbia University Press
Année de publication :	2006
Collection :	The historical ecology series
Importance :	417 p.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-231-13562-7
Note générale :	ISBN-10 : 0-231-13562-9
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	Complexity  Historical ecology  Landscape  Lowland  Neotropical region
Résumé :	Historical ecology is a powerful perspective for understanding the complex historical relationship between human beings and the biosphere. The present volume proceeds from the axiom that humanity in its historic paths across earth has interceded in material and measurable ways in a biotic world that evolved previously by natural selection and other evolutionary forces, and that the changes thus imposed on nature have in turn been reflected in human cultures, societies, and languages through time. In effect, historical ecology encompasses the view that wherever humans have trodden, the natural environment is somehow different, sometimes in barely perceptible ways, sometimes in dramatic ways. The authors in this volume have been trained in various disciplines, including anthropology (especially the subdisciplines of archaeology and sociocultural anthropology), geography, plant genetics, integrative biology, and general ecology, and they recognize the interdependence of these fields in attempting to comprehend the effects and countereffects of human behavior in the lowlands of the New World Tropics (Neotropics). [Résumé éditeur]
En ligne :	https://cup.columbia.edu/book/time-and-complexity-in-historical-ecology/97802311 [...]

Time and complexity in historical ecology: studies in the Neotropical Lowlands [livre] / William Balée, Éditeur scientifique ; Clark L. Erickson, Éditeur scientifique . - New York : Columbia University Press, 2006 . - 417 p.. - (The historical ecology series) .
ISBN : 978-0-231-13562-7
ISBN-10 : 0-231-13562-9
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Mots-clés :	Complexity  Historical ecology  Landscape  Lowland  Neotropical region
Résumé :	Historical ecology is a powerful perspective for understanding the complex historical relationship between human beings and the biosphere. The present volume proceeds from the axiom that humanity in its historic paths across earth has interceded in material and measurable ways in a biotic world that evolved previously by natural selection and other evolutionary forces, and that the changes thus imposed on nature have in turn been reflected in human cultures, societies, and languages through time. In effect, historical ecology encompasses the view that wherever humans have trodden, the natural environment is somehow different, sometimes in barely perceptible ways, sometimes in dramatic ways. The authors in this volume have been trained in various disciplines, including anthropology (especially the subdisciplines of archaeology and sociocultural anthropology), geography, plant genetics, integrative biology, and general ecology, and they recognize the interdependence of these fields in attempting to comprehend the effects and countereffects of human behavior in the lowlands of the New World Tropics (Neotropics). [Résumé éditeur]
En ligne :	https://cup.columbia.edu/book/time-and-complexity-in-historical-ecology/97802311 [...]