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Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments - From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments - From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 7
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Up until now, mountain ecosystems have not been closely studies by
social scientists as they do not offer a readily defined set of
problems for human exploitation as, do for instance, tropical
forests or arctic habitats. But the archaeological evidence had
shown that humans have been living in this type of habitat for
thousands of year. From this evidence we can also see that
mountainous regions are often frontier zones of competing polities
and form refuge areas for dissident communities as they often are
inherently difficult to control by centralized authorities. As a
consequence they fuel or contribute disproportionately to political
violence. But we are now witnessing changes and increasing
vulnerability of mountain ecosystems caused by human activities.
Human adaptability to mountain ecosystems. This volume presents an
international and interdisciplinary account of the exploitation of
- and human adaptation to - mountainous regions over time. The
contributions discuss human cultural responses to key physical and
cultural stressors associated with mountain ecosystems, such as
aridity, quality of soils, steep slopes, low productivity, as well
as transient phenomena such as changing weather patterns,
deforestation and erosion, and the possible effects of climate
change. This volume will be of interest to anthropologists,
ecologists and geologists as mountainous landscapes change fast and
cultures disappear and they need to be recorded, and mountain
regions are of interest for studies on environmental change and
cultural responses of mountain populations provide clues for us
all. Critical to understanding mountain adaptations is our
comprehension of human decision-making and how people view short-
and long-term outcomes.
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