Advances in Historical Ecology

By William Balée

Book Overview

Ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between living and non-living elements of the earth. For years, however, the discipline either neglected the human element entirely or presumed its effect on natural ecosystems to be invariably negative. Among social scientists, notably in geography and anthropology, efforts to address this human-environment interaction have generally been criticized as deterministic and mechanistic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231106327
• ISBN13: 9780231106320
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Length: 427 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"