Surviving sudden environmental change : understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters /: understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters. (©2012)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Surviving sudden environmental change : understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters /: understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters. (©2012)
- Main Title:
- Surviving sudden environmental change : understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters
- 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.
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