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" Understanding the cultural landscape / "
Bret Wallach.
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BL
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694827
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b517016
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| Main Entry
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Wallach, Bret,1943-
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Understanding the cultural landscape /\ Bret Wallach.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Guilford Press,, c2005.
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x, 406 p. :: ill., maps ;; 25 cm.
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1593851197 (pbk.)
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: 1593851200 (hardcover)
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Includes bibliographical references (391-395) and index.
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| Contents
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1: Anthropological foundations -- Human evolution, diffusion, and culture -- Foragers -- Domestication -- The diffusion and early development of agriculture -- The emergence of civilization -- 2: Historical developments -- China -- India -- A technological civilization -- Globalization -- 3: Livelihoods today -- Resource production -- Manufacturing -- Services -- Transportation and communication -- 4: Social and environmental consequences -- Romantic responses -- Political reactions -- Conservation, natural resources, and population -- Pollution, biodiversity, and climate change -- 5: Reading landscapes -- American cities -- Rural America -- Cities abroad -- Countryside abroad.
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Human ecology.
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Human geography.
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Landscape assessment.
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Landscape changes.
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Nature-- Effect of human beings on.
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GF41.W354 2005
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