Landesque Capital
The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2014
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-1-61132-386-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Walnut Creek
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
black & white tables, figures
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
563 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61132-386-3 (9781611323863)
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N. Thomas Hakansson | Mats Widgren
Landesque Capital
The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications
Book
08/2016
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Landesque Capital
The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications
E-Book
06/2016
Routledge
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N. Thomas Hakansson | Mats Widgren
Landesque Capital
The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications
E-Book
06/2016
Routledge
€59.49
Available for download
Persons
Edited by Hakansson, N Thomas; Widgren, Mats
Content
Introduction, Mats Widgren, N. Thomas Hakansson; Chapter 1 Economics and the Process of Making Farmland, William E. Doolittle; Chapter 2 Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications, Kathleen D. Morrison; Chapter 3 Taro Terraces, Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Edvard Hviding; Chapter 4 World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital Among the Ifugao, the Philippines, N. Thomas Hakansson; Chapter 5 Large-Scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China, 1000-1800, Janken Myrdal; Chapter 6 "Stonescape": Farmers' Differential Willingness to Invest in Landesque Capital in Nineteenth Century Sweden, Henrik Svensson; Chapter 7 The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study, Michael Sheridan; Chapter 8 The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life, Matthew I. J. Davies; Chapter 9 Irrigated Fields Are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet, Kenya, Wilhelm OEstberg; Chapter 10, Alf Hornborg, Love Eriksen, Ragnhei?ur Bogadottir; Chapter 11, Gregory Zaro; Chapter 12, Lowe Boerjeson; postscript Postscript, Tim Bayliss-Smith;