Title Human adaptability : an introduction to ecological anthropology / Emilio F. Moran

Edition Third edition Published New York : Westview Press, 2009 ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (496 pages) Series Anthropology online Contents List of illustrations -- Preface to the third edition -- List of acronyms -- pt. 1. Environmental anthropology : history, theory, and method -- 1. People in ecosystems -- Human adaptability as a response to constraints -- Modeling -- Energy -- Matter -- Information -- Ecosystems and global change -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- Note -- 2. Theories of human-habitat interaction -- Environmental determinism -- Cultural determinism : nature as a limiting factor -- Human adaptation to environment -- Cultural ecology : comparison in human-environment research -- Applications of the cultural ecological method -- Ecological anthropology -- Ethnoecological and cognitive approaches -- Historical ecology -- Political ecology -- Political economy and human adaptability -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- Notes -- 3. Fundamental concepts and methods -- Ecosystem relationships -- Soils and plant productivity -- Physiological responses -- Sociocultural regulatory adjustments -- Information and decisions : towards actor-based approaches -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- Note -- 4. Environmental change and spatial analysis -- The challenge of scale and levels of analysis -- Human adaptability to global environmental change -- The use of remote sensing and GIS in the social sciences -- Experimental approaches in the social sciences -- Spatial analysis and the study of institutions -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- Notes -- pt. 2. Studies of human adaptability -- 5. Human adaptability to Arctic zones -- The Arctic ecosystem -- Adaptation to cold stress -- Coping with snow and sea ice -- Adaptation to prolonged light and darkness -- Coping with low biological productivity -- Change in the Arctic -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- Note -- 6. Human adaptability to high altitudes -- Mountain ecosystems -- Adaptation to hypoxia -- Adaptability to cold stress in the Andes -- Aridity and low productivity -- Climate change and high altitude ecosystems -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- Notes -- 7. Human adaptability to arid lands -- Desert ecosystems -- Adjustments to dry heat -- Utilization of resources -- Irrigation -- Change in desert ecosystems -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- 8. Human adaptability to grasslands -- Grasslands ecosystems -- Herd management -- Relations with cultivators -- Adaptive strategies in the Northern Plains -- Global change and the future of grasslands and pastoralism -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- 9. Human adaptability to the humid tropics -- Tropical rain forest ecosystems -- Coping with ecosystem complexity -- Adaptability to humid heat -- Global change processes and alternatives to deforestation -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- Notes -- pt. 3. Urban sustainability -- 10. Urban ecology and urban sustainability -- The history of cities -- The ecology of cities -- Spatial aspects of the city : compact vs. sprawl patterns -- Reducing dependence on the automobile -- Cities and the upcoming water crisis -- An integrative view of the urban ecosystem -- The urban LTERs -- Final remarks -- Suggested readings and useful Websites -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of environmental, physiologic." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-458) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Adaptation (Physiology) Human beings -- Effect of environment on. Adaptation, Physiological SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. Adaptation (Physiology) Human beings -- Effect of environment on Mensch Umwelt Form Electronic book ISBN 9780786732531 0786732539 9780429495199 0429495196

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