Human Ecology

20 Aug 2007 21:31

I use the phrase with some diffidence, because I'm not quite sure this is what other people mean by it. What I want is studies of how people have re-shaped their ecosystems --- and, conversely, how their cultures have been shaped by their environments; perhaps this should be called something else...

Guillermo Algaze, "The Sumerian Takeoff", Structure and Dynamics 1 (2005): forthcoming [From the abstract: "Economic geographers correctly note that regional variations in economic activity and population agglomeration are always the result of self-reinforcing processes of resource production, accumulation, exchange, and innovation. This article proposes that essentially similar forces account for the emergence of the world's earliest cities in the alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Southern Mesopotamia), sometime during the second half of the fourth millennium BC."]
Stephen Budiansky, Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management [Review: Heaven and Earth Are Not Benevolent]
Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory
Yi-Fu Tuan
Andrew P. Vayda (ed.), Environment and Cultural Behavior: Ecological Studies in Cultural Anthropology

David Bourdon, Designing the Earth: The Human Impulse to Shape Nature
Carole Crumley (ed.), Historical Ecology
Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China [Blurb]
Amos Hawley, Human Ecology: A Theoretical Essay
Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe, The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day
William Meyer, Human Impact on Earth
Turner et alii (eds.), The Earth as Transformed by Human Action
Michael R. REdclift, Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature [Blurb]
S. J. Ulijaszek and S. S. Strickland (eds.), Seasonality and Human Ecology
Brett L. Walker, The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590--1800 [Blurb]