The way the wind blows
Subtitle: climate, history, and human action
By: edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh.
Contributors: McIntosh, Roderick J.; Tainter, Joseph A.; McIntosh, Susan Keech.
Series: The historical ecology series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: Climatic changes; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Human ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Climate, history, and human action / Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh; title: Climate variability during the Holocene : an update / Robert B. Dunbar; title: Complexity theory and sociocultural change in the American Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean; title: Environmental perception and human responses in history and prehistory / Fekri Hassan; title: Social memory in Mande / Roderick J. McIntosh; title: Memories, abstractions, and conceptualization of ecological crisis in the Mande world / Téréba Togola; title: From garden to globe : linking time and space with meaning and memory / Carole L. Crumley; title: Chinese attitudes toward climate / Cho-yun Hsu; title: 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; title: The lowland Maya civilization : historical consciousness and environment / David Freidel and Justine Shaw; title: Social repsonses to climate change among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California / John R. Johnson; title: Global change, history, and sustainability / Joseph A. Tainter; title: Land degradation as a socionatural process / S.E. van der Leeuw and the ARCHAEOMEDES Research Team.