Imperfect Balance
eBook - PDF

Imperfect Balance

  1. 788 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Imperfect Balance

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. List of Tables and Figures
  3. List of Contributors
  4. Foreword, by William Denevan
  5. 1. Introduction: Definitions and Conceptual Underpinnings
  6. 2. Climate Changes in the Northern American Tropics and Subtropics since the Last Ice Age: Implications for Environment and Culture
  7. 3. Vegetation in the Floristic Regions of North and Central America
  8. 4. Anthropocentric Food Webs in the Precolumbian Americas
  9. 5. Prehispanic Agricultural Systems in the Basin of Mexico
  10. 6. Prehispanic Water Management and Agricultural Intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: Implications for Contemporary Ecological Planning
  11. 7. Stability and Instability in Prehispanic May a Landscapes
  12. 8. Precolumbian Silviculture and Indigenous Management of Neotropical Forests
  13. 9. Native Farming Systems and Ecosystems in the Mississippi River Valley
  14. 10. Hohokam Impacts on Sonoran Desert Environment
  15. 11. Vegetation of the Tropical Andes
  16. 12. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Precolumbian Built Landscape
  17. 13. Andean Land Use at the Cusp of History
  18. 14. Lowland Vegetation of Tropical South America -- An Overview
  19. 15. The Lower Amazon: A Dynamic Human Habitat
  20. Summary and Conclusions
  21. Index