TY - BOOK ID - 78109939 TI - Viewing the future in the past : historical ecology applications to environmental issues AU - Foster, H. Thomas AU - Paciulli, Lisa M. AU - Goldstein, David John PY - 2016 SN - 1611175879 9781611175875 9781611175868 1611175860 PB - Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General. KW - SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology. KW - Anthropology KW - Archaeology KW - Environmental archaeology. KW - Landscape changes KW - Environmental degradation KW - Nature KW - Human ecology KW - Indians KW - Indian antiquities KW - Indian artifacts KW - Antiquities, Prehistoric KW - Archaeology, Environmental KW - Change, Landscape KW - Geomorphology KW - Degradation, Environmental KW - Destruction, Environmental KW - Deterioration, Environmental KW - Environmental destruction KW - Environmental deterioration KW - Natural disasters KW - Environmental quality KW - Environmental history KW - Philosophy. KW - History. KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Antiquities. KW - Methodology KW - America KW - Middle East UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78109939 AB - "Viewing the Future in the Past is a collection of essays that represents a wide range of authors, loci, and subjects that together demonstrate the value and necessity of looking at environmental problems as a long-term process that involves humans as a causal factor. Editors H. Thomas Foster II, Lisa M. Paciulli, and David J. Goldstein argue that it is increasingly apparent to environmental and earth sciences experts that humans have had a profound effect on the physical, climatological, and biological Earth. Consequently, they suggest that understanding any aspect of the Earth within the last ten thousand years means understanding the density and activities of Homo sapiens. The essays reveal the ways in which archaeologists and anthropologists have devised methodological and theoretical tools and applied them to pre-Columbian societies in the New World and ancient sites in the Middle East. Some of the authors demonstrate how these tools can be useful in examining modern societies. The contributors provide evidence that past and present ecosystems, economies, and landscapes must be understood through the study of human activity over millennia and across the globe"-- ER -