Landesque capital : the historical ecology of enduring landscape modifications
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Landesque capital : the historical ecology of enduring landscape modifications
（New frontiers in historical ecology, v. 5）
Left Coast Press, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ancient to contemporary times. They assess not only degradation but also the social, political, and economic institutions and contexts that make sustainability possible. Offering tightly edited, original contributions from leading scholars, this book will have a lasting influence on the study long-term human-environment relations in the human and natural sciences.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Landesque Capital: What is the Concept Good For, Mats Widgren and Thomas Hakansson 2. Economics and the Process of Making Farmland, William E. Doolittle 3. Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications, Kathleen D. Morrison 4. Taro Terraces, Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands, Tim Bayliss-Smith and Edvard Hviding 5. World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital among the Ifugao, the Philippines, N. Thomas Hakansson 6. Large scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China, 1000-1800, Janken Myrdal 7. Stonescape: Farmers' Differential Willingness for Investment in Landesque Capital, Henrik Svensson 8. The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study, Michael Sheridan 9. The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life, Matthew I.J. Davies 10. Irrigated Fields Are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet, Kenya, Wilhelm Ostberg 11. Correlating Landesque Capital and Ethno-political Integration in Pre-Columbian South America, Alf Hornborg, Love Eriksen and Ragnheiethur Bogadottir 12. From Terraces to Trees: Ancient and Historical Landscape Changes in Southern Peru, Gregory Zaro 13. The Antithesis to Degraded Land: Towards a Greener Conceptualization of Landesque Capital, Lowe Borjeson 14. The Future of Landesque Capital, Tim Bayliss-Smith Index About the Contributors
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