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| List of Figures | ||
| List of Tables | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Pt. I | Questions and Clues | 1 |
| 1 | History Hidden in the Landscape | 3 |
| 2 | The Written Record | 19 |
| 3 | Field Studies: Bringing Documentary Evidence Down to Earth | 36 |
| 4 | The Sedimentary Record | 52 |
| Pt. II | The Diversity of Human Impacts on the Natural World | 67 |
| 5 | Fire: Mimicking Nature | 69 |
| 6 | Extending Species Ranges | 89 |
| 7 | The Forest as a Resource | 108 |
| 8 | Agriculture and Its Residual Effects | 130 |
| 9 | Historical Patterns of Human Settlement and Their Ecological Consequences | 152 |
| Pt. III | Case Studies: Contributions of Historical Ecology to the Understanding of Ecological Issues | 175 |
| 10 | Human Modifications of Lake Ecosystems | 177 |
| 11 | Diversity and Species Extinctions | 197 |
| 12 | Biospheric Sustainability | 217 |
| 13 | Toward the Future: Research and Applications | 237 |
| Notes | 247 | |
| Index | 295 |
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George Reid
reviewed People and the land through time on December 10, 2013
People and the land through time
Finally i finished this book! almost 3 years after i first picked it up, while i was still a student at CTARA and working on technology dissemination.
At that time, i was unable to understand why my guide had asked me to read this book. It seemed to criticise Appropriate Technology, which we had been studying at that time.
Now i realise why i should have read the book then. This book outlines the AT movement, its incongruities, moral fallacies, and a lot more and gives a clearer perspective on technology and development than most texts on AT.
All Technology is violent, All of humanity is dependent on all of the resources, self-sufficiency is a myth, etc. Over the years, i had realised these things for myself, but still thought of some utopian AT and an alternative world can exist. Now i am not waylaid.
A must read for every student of Technology and Development.
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