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The way the wind blows: climate, history, and human action

By Susan Keech McIntosh , Joseph A. Tainter , Roderick J. McIntosh

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0231112092, 9780231112093, 0231112084, 9780231112086
Google Books ID
CTL1DskF3TsC
Open Library ID
OL15536195M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3089296 bytes)
Series
The historical ecology
Pages
432\432
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other environmental changes and to synthesize the implications of these historical patterns for present-day sustainability spurred a conference of the world's leading scholars on the topic. The Way the Wind Blows is the rich result of that conference.Articles discuss the dynamics of climate, human perceptions of and responses to the environment, and issues of sustainability and resiliency. These themes are illustrated through discussions of human societies around the world and throughout history.

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