Foragers, Farmers and Fishers: Responses to Environmental Perturbation
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Foragers, Farmers and Fishers: Responses to Environmental Perturbation
The role of environmental perturbation in shaping human society and culture has received increasing attention of late, attention that reflects a growing sense that global environmental changes currently underway will have unpredictable and potentially disastrous consequences in local contexts (e.g. Beck 1992; Caplan 2000; Grove and Chappell 2000; Haberle and Chepstow Lusty 2000; Hester and Harr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Political Ecology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1073-0451
DOI: 10.2458/v14i1.21683