Human Impact on Ancient Environments
, by Redman, Charles L.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780816519637 | 0816519633
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/1999
Threats to biodiversity, food shortages, urban sprawl... lessons for environmental problems that confront us today may well be found in the past. The archaeological record contains hundreds of situations in which societies developed long-term sustainable relationships with their environments -- and thousands in which the relationships were destructive.