The Way the Wind Blows
Climate Change, History, and Human Action
Will be published approx. on 24. August 2000
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-231-11208-6 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Trade binding
Weight
921 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-11208-6 (9780231112086)
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Roderick J. McIntosh | Joseph A. Tainter | Susan Keech McIntosh
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Climate Change, History, and Human Action
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Climate Change, History, and Human Action
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08/2000
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Persons
Roderick J. McIntosh is professor of anthropology at Rice University. Joseph A. Tainter is project leader of Cultural Heritage Research at the Rocky Mountain Research Station. Susan Keech McIntosh is professor of anthropology at Rice University and the director of Scientia: an institute for the history of science and culture.
Content
List of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on the Contributors 1. Climate, History, and Human Action, by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech Mc Intosh 1. Climate, Environment, and Human Action 2. Climate Variability During the Holocene: An Update, by Robert B. Dunbar 3. Complexity Theory and Sociocultural Change in the American Southwest, by Jeffrey S. Dean 2. Social Memory 4. Environmental Perception and Human Responses in History and Prehistory, by Fekri Hassan 5. Social Memory in Mande, by Roderick J. McIntosh 6. Memories, Abstractions, and Conceptualization of Ecological Crisis in the Mande World, by Tereba Togola 7. From Garden to Globe: Linking Time and Space with Meaning and Memory, by Carole L. Crumley 8. Chinese Attitudes Toward Climate, by Cho-yun Hsu 3. Cultural Responses to Climate Change 9. Three Rivers: Subregional Variations in Earth System Impacts in the Southwestern Maya Lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champoton Watersheds), by Joel D. Gunn and William J. Folan 10. The Lowland Maya Civilization: Historical Consciousness and Environment, by David Freidel and Justine Shaw 11. Social Responses to Climate Change Among the Chumash Indians of South Central California, by John R. Johnson 4. History and Contemporary Affairs 12. Global Change, History and Sustainability, by Joseph A. Tainter 13. Land Degradation as a Socionatural Process, by S.E. van der Leeuw and the ARCHAEOMEDES Research Team Index