Surviving sudden environmental change : understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters /: understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jago Cooper and Payson Sheets ; authors, David Abbott [and others].
• Other Names: Cooper, Jago; Sheets, Payson D; Abbott, David A
• Contents: Introduction: learning to live with the dangers of sudden environmental change / Payson Sheets and Jago Cooper -- Hazards, impacts, and resilience among hunter-gatherers of the Kuril Islands / Ben Fitzhugh -- Responses to explosive volcanic eruptions by small to complex societies in ancient Mexico and Central America / Payson Sheets -- Black sun, high flame, and flood : volcanic hazards in Iceland / Andrew Dugmore and Orri Vésteinsson -- Fail to prepare then prepare to fail : re-thinking threat vulnerability and mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean / Jago Cooper -- Collation, correlation, and causation in the prehistory of coastal Peru / Daniel H. Sandweiss and Jeffrey Quilter -- Silent hazards, invisible risks : prehispanic erosion in the Teotihuacan valley, central Mexico / Emily McClung de Tapia -- Domination and resilience in Bronze Age Mesopotamia / Tate Paulette -- Long-term vulnerability and resilience : three examples from archaeological study in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico / Margaret C. Nelson, Michelle Hegmon, Keith W. Kintigh, Ann P. Kinzig, Ben A. Nelson, John M. Anderies, David A. Abbott, Katherine A. Spielmann, Scott E. Ingram, Matthew A. Peeples, Stephanie Kulow, Colleen A. Strawhacker, Cathryn Meegan -- Social evolution, hazards, and resilience : some concluding thoughts / Timothy A. Kohler -- Global environmental change, resilience, and sustainable outcomes / Charles L. Redman.
• Publisher Details: Boulder, Colo : University Press of Colorado
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 256 pages)
• Subjects: 930.1; Environmental archaeology -- Case studies; Social archaeology -- Case studies; Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500; Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500; Human ecology -- History -- To 1500; Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- History -- To 1500; Social evolution -- History -- To 1500; Social change -- History -- To 1500; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology; Climatic changes -- Social aspects; Environmental archaeology; Human beings -- Effect of climate on; Human ecology; Natural disasters -- Social aspects; Social archaeology; Social change; Social evolution; Electronic books; Electronic books; Case studies; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781607321682; 1607321688; 9781457117282; 1457117282; 9781457117268; 1457117266
• Related ISBNs: 9781607321675; 160732167X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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