The environmental history of the Near and Middle east since the last ice age
Author: William C. Brice
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Published: 1976
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Author: William C. Brice
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Published: 1976
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Charles Brice
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDomestikation - Landschaftsgeschichte - Siedlungsgeschichte - Naher Osten - Balkan - Mittlerer Osten - Kulturpflanzenphylogenie allg. - Neolithikum - Vegetationsgeschichte.
Author: Arie S. Issar
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-06-10
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 3540698523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis survey of the ancient levels of lakes, rivers and the sea, as well as changes in the compositions of stalagmites and sediments reveals an astonishing correlation of climate changes with the emergence and collapse of civilizations in the Middle East. The authors conclude that climate change has been the decisive factor in the history surrounding the origins of the "cradle of civilization".
Author: Alan Mikhail
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-01-10
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0199768668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking environmental history accessible to scholars of the Middle East and the history of the region accessible to environmental historians, Water on Sand opens up new fields of scholarly inquiry.
Author: William R. Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-04
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1000403009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have played a crucial role in the historical and social development of the region. The book delves into a broad set of historical literature from the past 15,000 years that neglected to consider environmental factors to their full effect. Beyond the broad historic analysis, the chapters derive conclusions for today’s debate on whether climate change leads to more social conflict and violence. Introducing a theoretical framework focused on adaptive cycling, this book probes and refines the role of climate in ancient and modern political-economic systems in the MENA region. It also underscores just how bad the 21st-century environment may become thanks to global warming. While the MENA region may not survive the latest onslaught of deteriorating climate, there is also some interest in how a region that once led the world in introducing all sorts of innovations thousands of years ago has evolved into a contemporary setting characterized by traditional conservatism, poverty, and incessant strife. Emphasizing regional dynamics, the book's central question deals with the role of climate change in the rise and decline of the MENA region. The book will be a key resource to students and readers interested in global warming, including academics and policymakers.
Author: John Malcolm Wagstaff
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780389205777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a background to the modern geography of the Middle East by tracing the evolution of humanized managed landscapes from the domestication of cereals through to the initiation of the great transformations of the region in the mid-nineteenth century. By examining the natural potential of the region in terms of climate, natural vegetation and physical conditions, and charting the emergence of basic long-lasting traditional economies based on this environment, the author shows how the environment stimulated traditional life styles, which in turn perpetuated and molded the region.
Author: Ian Whyte
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-05-21
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 0857722204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncreasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How did people use and transform their environment? What problems of pollution and resource depletion occurred? What has been the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation? How have people's perceptions of nature and the environment changed over time? Environmental historians are revealing how and why our environment changed in the past, they are providing key insights into the mechanisms that influence environmental change today, and are helping to make informed decisions on crucial environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, pollution, global warming and climate change. Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history. An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines.
Author: J. R. McNeill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-05-04
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 111897753X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Author: Lawrence Guy Straus
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1461311454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts.