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The Way the Wind Blows (McIntosh, Roderick (Hrsg.) / Tainter, Joseph (Hrsg.) / McIntosh, Susan Keech (Hrsg.))
The Way the Wind Blows
Untertitel Climate Change, History, and Human Action
Autor McIntosh, Roderick (Hrsg.) / Tainter, Joseph (Hrsg.) / McIntosh, Susan Keech (Hrsg.)
Verlag Columbia University Press
Sprache Englisch
Einband Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
Seiten 448 S.
Artikelnummer 1577465
ISBN 978-0-231-11208-6
Reihe Historical Ecology Series
CHF 205.00
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Zusammenfassung
Experts in a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences--including geology, climatology, history, and anthropology--consider such topics as the dynamics of climate, human perceptions of and responses to the environment, and issues of sustainability and resiliency.

Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other environmental changes and to synthesize the implications of these historical patterns for present-day sustainability spurred a conference of the world's leading scholars on the topic. The Way the Wind Blows is the rich result of that conference.

Articles discuss the dynamics of climate, human perceptions of and responses to the environment, and issues of sustainability and resiliency. These themes are illustrated through discussions of human societies around the world and throughout history.

Edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh