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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| List of Acronyms | |
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| Environmental Anthropology: History, Theory, and Method | |
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| People in Ecosystems | |
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| Human Adaptability as a Response to Constraints | |
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| Modeling | |
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| Energy | |
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| Matter | |
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| Information | |
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| Ecosystems and Global Change | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Note | |
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| Theories of Human-Habitat Interaction | |
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| Environmental Determinism | |
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| Cultural Determinism: Nature as a Limiting Factor | |
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| Human Adaptation to Environment | |
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| Cultural Ecology: Comparison in Human-Environment Research | |
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| Applications of the Cultural Ecological Method | |
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| Ecological Anthropology | |
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| Ethnoecological and Cognitive Approaches | |
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| Historical Ecology | |
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| Political Ecology | |
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| Political Economy and Human Adaptability | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Notes | |
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| Fundamental Concepts and Methods | |
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| Ecosystem Relationships | |
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| Soils and Plant Productivity | |
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| Physiological Responses | |
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| Sociocultural Regulatory Adjustments | |
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| Information and Decisions: Toward Actor-Based Approaches | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Note | |
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| Environmental Change and Spatial Analysis | |
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| The Challenge of Scale and Levels of Analysis | |
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| Human Adaptability to Global Environmental Change | |
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| The Use of Remote Sensing and GIS in the Social Sciences | |
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| Experimental Approaches in the Social Sciences | |
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| Spatial Analysis and the Study of Institutions | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Notes | |
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| Studies of Human Adaptability | |
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| Human Adaptability to Arctic Zones | |
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| The Arctic Ecosystem | |
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| Adaptation to Cold Stress | |
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| Coping with Snow and Sea Ice | |
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| Adaptation to Prolonged Light and Darkness | |
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| Coping with Low Biological Productivity | |
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| Change in the Arctic | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Note | |
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| Human Adaptability to High Altitudes | |
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| Mountain Ecosystems | |
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| Adaptation to Hypoxia | |
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| Adaptability to Cold Stress in the Andes | |
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| Aridity and Low Productivity | |
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| Climate Change and High Altitude Ecosystems | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Notes | |
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| Human Adaptability to Arid Lands | |
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| Desert Ecosystems | |
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| Adjustments to Dry Heat | |
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| Utilization of Resources | |
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| Irrigation | |
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| Change in Desert Ecosystems | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Human Adaptability to Grasslands | |
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| Grasslands Ecosystems | |
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| Herd Management | |
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| Relations with Cultivators | |
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| Adaptive Strategies in the Northern Plains | |
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| Global Change and the Future of Grasslands and Pastoralism | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Human Adaptability to the Humid Tropics | |
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| Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems | |
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| Coping with Ecosystem Complexity | |
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| Adaptability to Humid Heat | |
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| Global Change Processes and Alternatives to Deforestation | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Notes | |
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| Urban Sustainability | |
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| Urban Ecology and Urban Sustainability | |
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| The History of Cities | |
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| The Ecology of Cities | |
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| Spatial Aspects of the City: Compact Versus Sprawl Patterns | |
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| Reducing Dependence on the Automobile | |
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| Cities and the Upcoming Water Crisis | |
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| An Integrative View of the Urban Ecosystem | |
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| The Urban LTERs | |
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| Final Remarks | |
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| Suggested Readings and Useful Websites | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |