Landesque capital
Subtitle: the historical ecology of enduring landscape modifications
By: edited by N. Thomas Håkansson and Mats Widgren
Series: New frontiers in historical ecology -- 5
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781611323863; 9781611323887; 9781611327403
Subjects: Landscape changes; Environmental aspects; Human ecology; History; Land use; Agricultural productivity; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
Description: "This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ancient to contemporary times. They assess not only degradation but also the social, political, and economic institutions and contexts that make sustainability possible. Offering tightly edited, original contributions from leading scholars, this book will have a lasting influence on the study long-term human-environment relations in the human and natural sciences"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Landesque Capital: What is the Concept Good For, Mats Widgren and Thomas Håkansson 2. Economics and the Process of Making Farmland, William E. Doolittle 3. Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications, Kathleen D. Morrison 4. Taro Terraces, Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands, Tim Bayliss-Smith and Edvard Hviding 5. World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital among the Ifugao, the Philippines, N. Thomas Håkansson 6. Large scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China, 1000-1800, Janken Myrdal 7. Stonescape: Farmers' Differential Willingness for Investment in Landesque Capital, Henrik Svensson 8. The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study, Michael Sheridan 9. The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life, Matthew I.J. Davies 10. Irrigated Fields Are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet, Kenya, Wilhelm Östberg 11. Correlating Landesque Capital and Ethno-political Integration in Pre-Columbian South America, Alf Hornborg, Love Eriksen and Ragnheiǒur Bogadóttir 12. From Terraces to Trees: Ancient and Historical Landscape Changes in Southern Peru, Gregory Zaro 13. The Antithesis to Degraded Land: Towards a Greener Conceptualization of Landesque Capital, Lowe Börjeson 14. The Future of Landesque Capital, Tim Bayliss-Smith Index About the Contributors.