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Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Civilization.
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Archaeology --- -Archaeology --- -#BIBC:bibl.Reekmans --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Methodology --- -Addresses, essays, lectures --- Archaeology. --- Methodology.
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Threats to biodiversity, food shortages, urban sprawl, lessons for environmental problems that confront us today may well be found in the past. The archaeological record contains hundreds of situations in which societies developed long-term sustainable relationships with their environments, and thousands in which the relationships were destructive. The author demonstrates that much can be learned from an improved understanding of peoples who, through seemingly rational decisions, degraded their environments and threatened their own survival. By discussing archaeological case studies from around the world, from the deforestation of the Mayan lowlands to soil erosion in ancient Greece to the almost total depletion of resources on Easter Island, he reveals the long range coevolution of culture and environment and clearly shows the impact that ancient peoples had on their world. These case studies focus on four themes: habitat transformation and animal extinctions, agricultural practices, urban growth, and the forces that accompany complex society. They show that humankind's commitment to agriculture has had cultural consequences that have conditioned our perception of the environment and reveal that societies before European contact did not necessarily live the utopian existences that have been popularly supposed. Whereas most books on this topic tend to treat human societies as mere reactors to environmental stimuli, this volume shows them to be active participants in complex and evolving ecological relationships. This book demonstrates how archaeological research can provide unique insights into the nature of human stewardship of the Earth and can permanently alter the way we think about humans and the environment.
504.7 milieu --- Human ecology --- Paleoecology. --- Environmental archaeology. --- Environmental degradation --- Extinction (Biology) --- Animals --- Extirpation (Biology) --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Archaeology, Environmental --- Palaeoecology --- Environmental history --- History. --- Extinction --- Extirpation --- Environmental archaeology --- Nature --- Paleoecology --- Ecology --- Paleobiology --- Biology --- Extinct animals --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Archaeology --- History --- Effect of human beings on&delete& --- Methodology --- Effect of human beings on
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Despite the promising and exciting possibilities presented by new and fast-developing remote sensing technologies applied to urban areas, there is still a gap perceived between the generally academic and research-focused spectrum of results offered by the “urban remote sensing” community and the application of these data and products by the local governmental bodies of urban cities and regions. While there is no end of interesting science questions that we can ask about cities, sometimes these questions don't match well with what the operational problems and concerns of a given city are. The authors present data from six urban regions from all over the world. They explain what the important questions are, and how one can use data and scientific skills to help answer them.
City planning --- Metropolitan government --- Remote sensing. --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Consolidation of local governments --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan areas --- Municipal corporations --- Municipal government --- Government policy --- Management --- Geographical information systems. --- Regional planning. --- Ecology. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Landscape protection --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Ecology --- Geography --- Urban planning. --- Geoecology. --- Environmental geology. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Geoecology --- Environmental protection --- Physical geology --- Measurement --- Monitoring
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Geodesy. Cartography --- General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Environmental planning --- geodesie --- ruimtelijke ordening --- duurzaamheid --- remote sensing --- ecologie --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- milieutechnologie
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This work addresses how human activities influence the spatial and temporal structures of agrarian landscapes, and how this varies over time and across biogeographic regions. It also looks at the ecological and environmental consequences of the resulting structural changes and the human responses to these changes.
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farmland --- farmland --- farming systems --- farming systems --- ecology --- ecology --- Landscape conservation --- Landscape conservation --- USA --- USA
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