Way the Wind Blows Climate Change, History, and Human Action

Name: Way the Wind Blows Climate Change, History, and Human Action
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ISBN: 9780231112093

ISBN-10: 0231112092

ISBN-13: 9780231112093

Edition: 2000

Authors: Roderick McIntosh, Joseph Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh

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This text takes a holistic look at environmental problems by examining them from the context of political, social, and cultural viewpoints it includes articles on Chinese attitudes towards climate, and civilisation's view of the environment.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 8/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

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.



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Notes on the Contributors



Climate, History, and Human Action




Climate, Environment, and Human Action



Climate Variability During the Holocene: An Update




Complexity Theory and Sociocultural Change in the American Southwest




Social Memory



Environmental Perception and Human Responses in History and Prehistory




Social Memory in Mande




Memories, Abstractions, and Conceptualization of Ecological Crisis in the Mande World




From Garden to Globe: Linking Time and Space with Meaning and Memory




Chinese Attitudes Toward Climate




Cultural Responses to Climate Change



Three Rivers: Subregional Variations in Earth System Impacts in the Southwestern Maya Lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champoton Watersheds)




The Lowland Maya Civilization: Historical Consciousness and Environment




Social Responses to Climate Change Among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California




History and Contemporary Affairs



Global Change, History, and Sustainability




Land Degradation as a Socionatural Process



Index