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A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'By the time I'd read the first chapter, I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the sixth, I was wanting to break prisoners out of cells and onto the mossy moors. Losing Eden rigorously and convincingly tells of the value of the natural universe to our human hearts' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves? Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth. Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.
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• Introducing tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity
• Tropical forests: natural history, diversity, and potentiality as theatres of human adaption and negotiation
• Cradle under the canopy: the forest origins of our ape and hominin ancestors and the tropical forest forays of the genus Homo
• Into the woods: early Homo sapiens and tropical forest colonization
• Tropical bounties: the emergence of tropical forest agricultures
• 'Ruins' of the forest: social complexity and tropical cities
• The last in a long line: historical and ethnographic tropical forest encounters
• The tropical 'Anthropocene': a modern battleground or a long-term framework?
• Forest of plenty? Comparisons and conclusions

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring0together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins in the tropical forests of Africa to modern conservation issues. Following a review of the natural history and variability of tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time. 0Far from being pristine, primordial ecosystems, this book illustrates how our species has inhabited and modified tropical forests from the earliest stages of its evolution. While agricultural strategies and vast urban networks emerged in tropical forests long prior to the arrival of European colonial powers and later industrialization, this should not be taken as justification for the massive deforestation and biodiversity threats imposed on tropical forest ecosystems in the 21st century.0Rather, such a long-term perspective highlights the ongoing challenges of sustainability faced by forager, agricultural, and urban societies in these environments, setting the stage for more integrated approaches to conservation and policy-making, and the protection of millennia of ecological and cultural heritage bound up in these habitats

A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics--the old forces of nature--have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force--humans. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet's 4.5-billion-year history a single species is increasingly dictating Earth's future. To some the Anthropocene symbolizes a future of superlative control of our environment. To others it is the height of hubris, the illusion of our mastery over nature. Whatever your view, just below the surface of this odd-sounding scientific word, the Anthropocene, is a heady mix of science, philosophy, and politics linked to our deepest fears and utopian visions. Tracing our environmental impacts through time, scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin reveal a new view of human history and a new outlook for the future of humanity in the unstable world we have created.
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• 1. Using resources - stories of resources exploitation in time and its evolving in the long run).-
• 2. Transforming in sito - manipulating, changing, evolving landscapes, waterscapes, airscapes (classical approach of territorial changing, causes, actors and consequences).-
• 3. Transferring -migrations - resources exploitation and trade-- local to global - native sources, new case studies tans-continental approaches.-
• 4. Conscience of loss, awareness of need, Improving - nowadays awareness of how we arrive here, undoing wrong territorial policies with environmental impact.-
• 5. Civic and political agency - history as memory of social process, knowing the past planning the future.
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• Introduction: Estelita Vaz et al.-
• 1. Approaches - (social bondage to maths, arts or socio-biology).-
• 2. Proposing - Concepts, sources, methodologies.-
• 3. Clarifying - Results - interchange of psico-social with natural and analytical.-
• 4. Blurring all confronting data : new interpretations, old themes, different outcomes.-
• 5. Resetting data, new data, new stories - information upon classic subjects (crossing methodologies new results).
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This book is the product of the 2nd World Conference on Environmental History, held in Guimaraes, Portugal, in 2014. It gathers works by authors from the five continents, addressing concerns raised by past events so as to provide information to help manage the present and the future. It reveals how our cultural background and examples of past territorial intervention can help to combat political and cultural limitations through the common language of environmental benefits without disguising harmful past human interventions. Considering that political ideologies such as socialism and capitalism, as well as religion, fail to offer global paradigms for common ground, an environmentally positive discourse instead of an ecological determinism might serve as an umbrella common language to overcome blocking factors, real or invented, and avoid repeating ecological loss. Therefore, agency, environmental speech and historical research are urgently needed in order to sustain environmental paradigms and overcome political, cultural an economic interests in the public arena. This book intertwines reflections on our bonds with landscapes, processes of natural and scientific transfer across the globe, the changing of ecosystems, the way in which scientific knowledge has historically both accelerated destruction and allowed a better distribution of vital resources or as it, in today's world, can offer alternatives that avoid harming those same vital natural resources: water, soil and air. In addition, it shows the relevance of cultural factors both in the taming of nature in favor of human comfort and in the role of the environment matters in the forging of cultural identities, which cannot be detached from technical intervention in the world. In short, the book firstly studies the past, approaching it as a data set of how the environment has shaped culture, secondly seeks to understand the present, and thirdly assesses future perspectives: what to keep, what to change, and what to dream anew, considering that conventional solutions have not sufficed to protect life on our planet.
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• 1: Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Resources Management: An Introduction Featuring Wildlife
• PART I: CHANGE AND DYNAMISM
• 2: The Dynamic Nature of Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge. An Analysis of Change Among the Baka (Congo Basin) and the Tsimane' (Amazon)
• 3: Contingency and Adaptation over Five Decades in Nuaulu Forest-Based Plant Knowledge
• 4: 'Keeping Our Milpa': Maize Production and Management of Trees by Nahuas of the Sierra de Zongolica, Mexico
• 5: The Contested Space that Local Knowledge Occupies: Understanding the Veterinary Knowledges and Practices of Livestock Farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
• PART II: DIFFUSION AND EXTENSION
• 6: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for Technology Adoption in Agriculture
• 7: Seeds of the Devil Weed: Local Knowledge and Learning from Videos in Mali
• 8: 'I Will Continue to Fight Them': Local Knowledge, Everyday Resistance and Adaptation to Climate Change in Semi-Arid Tanzania
• PART III: CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
• 9: Indigenous Soil Enrichment for Food Security and Climate Change in Africa and Asia: a Review
• 10: Will the Real Raised-Field Agriculture Please Rise? Indigenous Knowledge and the Resolution of Competing Visions of One Way to Farm Wetlands
• 11: Andean Cultural Affirmation and Cultural Integration in Context: Reflections on Indigenous Knowledge for the In Situ Conservation of Agrobiodiversity
• 12: The Indigenous Knowledge of Crop Diversity and Evolution PART IV: COMPLEXITY AND VARIABILITY
• 13: Investigating Farmers' Knowledge and Practice Regarding Crop Seeds: Beware Your Assumptions!
• 14: Traditional Domestic Knowledge and Skills in Post-Harvest Processes: a Focus on Food Crop Storage
• 15: The Local Wisdom of Balinese Subaks
• 16: Indigenous Agriculture and the Politics of.
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Indigenous Knowledge (IK) reviews cutting-edge research and links theory with practice to further our understanding of this important approach's contribution to natural resource management. It addresses IK's potential in solving issues such as coping with change, ensuring global food supply for a growing population, reversing environmental degradation and promoting sustainable practices. It is increasingly recognised that IK, which has featured centrally in resource management for millennia, should play a significant part in today's programmes that seek to increase land productivity and food security while ensuring environmental conservation. By drawing together strands of biocultural diversity research into natural resources management, this book: - Provides an overview of conceptual issues around IK and its contributions to sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation; - Addresses key themes via case studies from bioculturally diverse regions of the world; - Displays a wide range of methodologies and outlines a possible agenda to guide future work. An invaluable resource for researchers and postgraduate students in environmental science and natural resources management, this book is also an informative read for development practitioners and undergraduates in agriculture, forestry, geography, anthropology and environmental studies.
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• INTRODUCTION Overview of Land Cover and Land Use Monitoring Programs Herbert Haubold and Jan Feranec Project CORINE Land Cover Jan Feranec METHODOLOGY CORINE Land Cover Nomenclature Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Barbara Kosztra, and Stephan Arnold Satellite Data Used Tomas Soukup, Jan Feranec, and Gerard Hazeu Interpretation of Satellite Images Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, and Tomas Soukup Accuracy Assessment of CLC Data Gyorgy Buttner, Barbara Kosztra, and Gergely Maucha CORINE Land Cover Products Gyorgy Buttner Product Dissemination Policy Gyorgy Buttner High-Resolution Layers Gyorgy Buttner, Gergely Maucha, and Barbara Kosztra EUROPEAN CLC DATA LAYERS CORINE Land Cover 1990 (CLC1990): Analysis and Assessment Tomas Soukup, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, and Erika Orlitova CORINE Land Cover 2000 (CLC2000): Analysis and Assessment Tomas Soukup, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, and Erika Orlitova CORINE Land Cover 2006 (CLC 2006): Analysis and Assessment Tomas Soukup, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, and Erika Orlitova CORINE Land Cover 2012 (CLC2012): Analysis and Assessment Tomas Soukup, Gyorgy Buttner, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, and Erika Orlitova CORINE Land Cover 1990-2000 Changes: Analysis and Assessment Tomas Soukup, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, and Erika Orlitova CORINE Land Cover 2000-2006 Changes: Analysis and Assessment Tomas Soukup, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, and Erika Orlitova CORINE Land Cover 2006-2012 Changes: Analysis and Assessment Tomas Soukup, Gyorgy Buttner, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, and Erika Orlitova CASE STUDIES: SOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS USING THE CORINE LAND COVER DATA Land Cover of Europe Tomas Soukup, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, Erika Orlitova, and Katerina Jupova Trend of Land Cover Changes in Europe in 1990-2012 Tomas Soukup, Jan Feranec, Gerard Hazeu, Gabriel Jaffrain, Marketa Jindrova, Miroslav Kopecky, Erika Orlitova, and Katerina Jupova Monitoring of Urban Fabric Classes and Their Validation in Selected European Cities (Urban Atlas) Gabriel Jaffrain, Christophe Sannier, and Jan Feranec Landscape Fragmentation in Europe Jochen A. G. Jaeger, Tomas Soukup, Christian Schwick, Luis F. Madrinan, and Felix Kienast Ecosystem Mapping and Assessment Markus Erhard, Branislav Olah, Gebhard Banko, Stefan Kleeschulte, and Dania Abdul-Malak High Nature Value Farmland and the Common Agricultural Policy Ivone Pereira Martins, Katarzyna Biala, and Ana Maria Ribeiro de Sousa CLC for National Accounting: Land and Ecosystem Natural Capital Accounts Jean-Louis Weber and Gabriel Jaffrain Land Use and Scenario Modeling for Integrated Sustainability Assessment Carlo Lavalle, Filipe Batista e Silva, Claudia Baranzelli, Chris Jacobs-Crisioni, Ine Vandecasteele, Ana Luisa Barbosa, Joachim Maes, Grazia Zulian, Carolina Perpina Castillo, Ricardo Barranco, and Sara Vallecillo CORINE Land Cover Outside of Europe Gabriel Jaffrain CLC PERSPECTIVE Detailed CLC Data: Member States with CLC Level 4/Level 5 and (Semi-) automated Solutions Gerard Hazeu, Gyorgy Buttner, Antonio Arozarena, Nuria Valcarcel, Jan Feranec, and Geoff Smith CLC in the Context of INSPIRE Geir-Harald Strand and Stephan Arnold Future of Land Monitoring in Europe Stefan Kleeschulte, Tomas Soukup, Gerard Hazeu, Geoff Smith, Stephan Arnold, and Barbara Kosztra Conclusions Jan Feranec, Tomas Soukup, Gerard Hazeu, and Gabriel Jaffrain.
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Four unique pan-European CORINE Land Cover datasets-CLC1990, CLC2000, CLC2006, and CLC2012- and three datasets concerning changes between 1990 and 2012 have presented the first-ever opportunity to observe the European landscape by means of land cover and its change. This book brings together all these datasets to demonstrate the methods of identification, analysis and assessment of the European land cover and its changes that took place during the intervals of 1990-2000, 2000-2006, and 2006-2012. It provides examples in which CLC data plays a role in offering solutions to European environmental problems such as the monitoring of urban dynamics, land fragmentation, ecosystems mapping and assessment, and high nature value farmland characteristics. Existing environmental problems require new approaches, and European Landscape Dynamics: CORINE Land Cover Data indicates a set of outlooks for CLC data generation that produce more detailed levels of analysis and bottom-up approaches while addressing the relationship of CLC data to the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE). It also discusses the future of CLC data generation. A valuable resource of up-to-date information, it is useful to professionals such as scientists, territorial planners, and environmentalists as well as students of geosciences and all those who are interested in cognition of the European landscape, its changes and development.
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With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem. The pastoral landscapes, red sandstone cliffs, and small fishing villages of Canada's "garden province" are appealing because they appear timeless, but they are as culturally constructed as they are shaped by the ebb and flow of the tides. Bringing together experts from a multitude of disciplines, the essays in Time and a Place explore the island's marine and terrestrial environment from its prehistory to its recent past. Beginning with PEI's history as a blank slate - a land scraped by ice and then surrounded by rising seas - this mosaic of essays documents the arrival of flora, fauna, and humans, and the different ways these inhabitants have lived in this place over time. The collection offers policy insights for the province while also informing broader questions about the value of islands and other geographically bounded spaces for the study of environmental history and the crafting of global sustainability. Putting PEI at the forefront of Canadian environmental history, Time and a Place is a remarkable accomplishment that will be eagerly received and read by historians, geographers, scholars of Canadian and island studies, and environmentalists.
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• Foreword
• Notes on translation
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Methods
• Part I. Cross-community summary of environmental change
• Part II. Individual community summaries of environmental change
• Nunavut
• Kugluktuk
• Baker Lake
• Pond Inlet
• Pangnirtung
• Nunavik
• Umiujaq
• Kangiqsualujjuaq
• Kangiqsujuaq
• Nunatsiavut
• Nain
• Posters
• Closing remarks
• Final thoughts
• Appendix. Summary of findings
• Photo credits.

"Climate change is expected to have a particular impact on the Arctic regions of the world. Melting permafrost, changing wildlife migration patterns, and new species of flora and fauna threaten to forever change the landscape of the North, as well as the lives of its people. In this book, Inuit elders and knowledge holders from eight Canadian Arctic communities--Kugluktuk, Baker Lake, Pangnirtung, and Pond Inlet in Nunavut; Umiujaq, Kangiqsujuaq, and Kagiqsualujjuaq in Nunavik; and Nain in Nunatsiavut--share their observations of climate change, including how it is affecting traditional ways of life. Paired with scientific analysis of the research findings, this book adds a valuable and unique insight to the academic literature on climate change."-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword-- Jonathan Friedman
• 1. The Post-Frontier Paradox
• 2. The Peruvian Amazon And Post-Frontier Ethnography
• 3. Frontier Narratives
• 4. Decolonizing Indigenous Governance
• 5. Greening The Frontier
• 6. The Double-Bind Of Community Conservation
• 8. Oil Exploration And The Extractive Post-Frontier
• 9. Indigenous Power And Post-Frontier Politics Concluding Remarks: Theorizing Post-Frontier Governance Post-Script: Biosphere Dreams And Biosfears.
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The 20th century involved an unprecedented scramble for resources reaching the most remote corners of the world. Simultaneously, a quiet revolution has taken place with environmental protection, land and community rights regimes gradually taking hold, albeit unevenly, across the global South. Institutional topographies and policies have never before appeared as green and socially inclusive, yet co-exist with a deepening socio-environmental crisis. Intensified pressures stand in contrast to, persist, and even thrive under new environmental and social protection measures. The author offers an anthropological analysis of the paradox. Building on the concept of post-frontier governance, he presents a portrayal of the host of new regulatory technologies, practices and institutions that nominally close, yet more accurately characterize and restructure, contemporary resource frontiers. The book examines these arrangements ethnographically in the Peruvian Amazon by focusing on the Yanesha people and their involvement with the organization of indigenous rights, conservation and protected area planning, logging, and oil development.
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Western Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes emerges through the fields of environmental history, environmental and ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoart, ecopoetry, and environmental journalism. This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have global reach. Among the developments in the contributors' construction of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.
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• The ice, the crow, and the plague : before European exploration
• From continental drift to nomadic land use
• Fire, fishing, and farming of native peoples
• The era of local resource production and extraction : settlement to the start of the twentieth century
• On the way to an amphibious society
• Mining the bounty of nature
• The decline of the established economy
• Dependence on distant resources, and revenue from recreation : early twentieth century to the present
• Trains, cars, cottages, and restaurants
• The golden age of tourism
• Problems in paradise.

To many, Cape Cod represents the classic setting for an American summer vacation. Attracting seasonal tourists with picturesque beaches and abundant seafood, the Cape has held a place in our national imagination for almost two hundred years. People have been drawn to its beauty and resources since Native Americans wandered up its long sandy peninsula some 12,000 years ago, while writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Norman Mailer have celebrated its mystery and allure. But, despite its idealized image, Cape Cod has a long history of scarcity and an increasingly evident fragility. John T. Cumbler's book offers an environmental, social, and economic history of Cape Cod told through the experiences of residents as well as visitors. He notes that over the past four hundred years the Cape has experienced three regimes of resource utilization. The first regime of Native Americans who lived relatively lightly on the land was supplanted by European settlers who focused on production and extraction. This second regime began in the age of sail but declined through the age of steam as the soil and seas failed to yield the resources necessary to sustain continuing growth. Environmental and then economic crises during the second half of the nineteenth century eventually gave way to the third regime of tourism and recreation. But this regime has its own environmental costs, as residents have learned over the last half century. Although the Cape remains a special place, its history of resource scarcity and its attempts to deal with that scarcity offer useful lessons for anyone addressing similar issues around the globe.
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• Welcome to the Anthropocene. Apps for apes ; Wild heart, anthropocene mind ; Black marble ; Handmade landscapes ; A dialect of stone ; Monkeying with the weather ; Gaia in a temper ; Brainstorming from equator to ice ; Blue revolution
• In the house of stone and light. Asphalt jungles ; A green man in a green shade ; House plants? How passé ; Opportunity warms
• Is nature "natural" anymore? Is nature "natural" anymore? ; The slow-motion invaders ;"They had no choice" ; Paddling in the gene pool ; For love of a snail
• Nature, pixilated. An (un)natural future of the senses ; Weighing in the nanoscale ; Nature, pixilated ; The interspecies Internet ; Your passion flower is sexting you ; When robots weep, who will comfort them? ; Robots on a date ; Printing a rocking horse on Mars
• Our bodies, our nature. The (3D-printed) ear he lends me ; Cyborgs and chimeras ; DNA's secret doormen ; Meet my maker, the mad molecule ; Wild heart, anthropocene mind (revisited).

"Humans have subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness. We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity ... Ackerman [explores] our new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating--perhaps saving--our future and that of our fellow creatures"--Amazon.com.

• Contents List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction What Is Cultural Ecology? Anthropology The Study of Human Ecology A History of Thought on Culture and Environment The Rise of Cultural Ecology Thus ... Chapter Summary Key Terms
• 2 Fundamentals of Ecology The Environment Niche and Habitat Resources Energy Chapter Summary Key Terms
• 3 Human Biological Ecology Humans as Animals Biological Adaptations Human Population Regulation Nutrition Evolutionary Ecology Chapter Summary Key Terms CASE STUDY 3.1. The Dietary Role of Insects in the Ancient Great Basin
• 4 Cultural Ecology Human Capabilities Culture as an Adaptive Mechanism Traditional Knowledge Systems Human Control of the Environment Decision Making A Concluding Thought on Management Chapter Summary Key Terms
• 5 Hunting and Gathering Hunter-Gatherer Classification The Hunter-Gatherer Stereotype Bias in Hunter-Gatherer Studies Population Settlement and Subsistence Environmental Manipulation and Resource Management Relations with other Groups Chapter Summary Key Terms CASE STUDY 5.1: The Nuu-chah-nulth of British Columbia CASE STUDY 5.2: The Mbuti of the Ituri Forest
• 6 The Origins of Food Production Agricultural Domestication The Transition to Farming On the Origin of Agriculture Types of Agriculture The Impact of Agriculture Chapter Summary Key Terms
• 7 Horticulture Horticultural Techniques Use of Wild Resources Environmental Manipulation and Resource Management Relations with Other Groups Chapter Summary Key Terms CASE STUDY 7.1: The Grand Valley Dani of Highland New Guinea CASE STUDY 7.2: The Lozi of Western Zambia
• 8 Pastoralism General Sociopolitical Organization Types of Pastoralism The Geography of Pastoralism The Origin of Pastoralism Some Parameters of Pastoralism Use of Nonpastoral Products Environmental Manipulation and Resource Management Relations with Other Groups A Note on the Impact of Grazing Chapter Summary Key Terms CASE STUDY 8.1: The Maasai: Pastoralists in East Africa CASE STUDY 8.2: The Navajo: Pastoralists of the American Southwest CASE STUDY 8.3: Cattle Ranchers in the American West, by Kimberly Hedrick
• 9 Intensive Agriculture Changes in Scale Techniques of Intensive Agriculture Contemporary Industrialized Agriculture Environmental Manipulation and Resource Management Relations with Other Groups Chapter Summary Key Terms CASE STUDY 9.1: Mountains and Water: The Traditional Agricultural System along South Coastal China CASE STUDY 9.2: The Maya Agricultural System
• 10 Current Issues and Problems The Tragedy of the Commons Agricultural Involution Agricultural Development and Intensification The Rainforest Dilemma The General Problem Chapter Summary Key Terms Glossary References Index About the Authors.
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All peoples and cultures face environmental issues-but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history. Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework for exploring what other cultures can teach us about human/environment relationships. Drawing on both biological and cultural approaches, the authors first cover basic principles of cultural anthropology, environmental studies, and human biological adaptations to the environment. They then consider environmental concerns within the context of diverse means of making a living, from hunting and gathering to modern industrial societies; detailed case studies add depth and breadth to the discussion.
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• Singapore's changing landscape since c.1800 / Tony O'Dempsey
• Tigers of colonial Singapore / Timothy P. Barnard and Mark Emmanuel
• Wallace in Singapore / John van Wyhe
• The environmental relevance of the Singapore botanic gardens / Nigel P. Taylor
• The beastly business of regulating the wildlife trade in colonial Singapore / Fiona L. P. Tan
• The Raffles Museum and the fate of natural history in Singapore / Timothy P. Barnard
• Agriculture and the end of farming in Singapore / Cynthia Chou
• The nature society, endangered species, and conservation in Singapore / Goh Hong Yi
• A city in a garden / Timothy P. Barnard and Corinne Heng .

How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, political, social and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century? What are the antecedents to Singapore's image of itself as a City in a Garden? Grounding the story of Singapore within an understanding of its environment opens the way to an account of the past that is more than a story of trade, immigration and nation building. Each of the chapters in this volume focusing on topics ranging from tigers and plantations to trade in exotic animals and the greening of the city, and written by botanists, historians, anthropologists, and naturalists examines how humans have interacted with and understood the natural environment on a small island in Southeast Asia over the past 200 years, and conversely how this environment has influenced humans. Between the chapters are traveller's accounts and primary documents that provide eyewitness descriptions of the events examined in the text. In this regard, Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore provides new insights into the Singaporean past, and reflects much of the diversity, and dynamism, of environmental history globally.
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• Introduction : bare nature in the naked city / John Waldman
• Monarchs of the urban mind / Betsy McCully
• Welcome to the H2O region - your second address! / Christopher Meier and Tony Hiss
• Public place, Brooklyn / Kelly McMasters
• Corner garden / Dara Ross
• A land ethic for the city / William Kornblum
• Can naturalists and urbanists find happiness together? / Phillip Lopate
• Can you eat in soup? : nine million ways to look at a raccoon - and an apple / David Rosane
• The dark side ; or, my time spent in the nature that people would rather not think about / Robert Sullivan
• The futures of New York / Anne Matthews
• Imagination, beauty and the urban land ethic : teaching environmental literature in New York City / Devin Zuber
• Nature in New York : a brief cultural history / Frederic Buell.

A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America's most prominent city. The volume's title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan's contribution that considers how a hawk in the city is perceived so much differently from a hawk in the countryside. Yet it's still the same hawk. How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Or a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? Why does the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the surrounding neighborhood? Is the city an oasis or a desert for biodiversity? Why does nature even matter to New Yorkers, who choose to live in the concrete jungle? Still the Same Hawk examines these questions with a rich mix of creative nonfiction that ranges from analytical to anecdotal and humorous. John Waldman's sharp, well-crafted introduction presenting dualism as the defining quality of urban nature is followed by compelling contributions from Besty McCully, Christopher Meier, Tony Hiss, Kelly McMasters, Dara Ross, William Kornblum, Phillip Lopate, David Rosane, Robert Sullivan, Anne Matthews, Devin Zuber, and Frederick Buell. Together these pieces capture a wide range of viewpoints, including the myriad and shifting ways New Yorkers experience and consider the outdoors, the historical role of nature in shaping New York's development, what natural attributes contribute to New York's regional identity, the many environmental tradeoffs made by urbanization, and even nature's dark side where "urban legends" flourish. Still the Same Hawk intermingles elements of natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics, providing fresh insights into nature and the urban environment on one of the world's great stages for the clash of these seemingly disparate realms--New York City.
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