| Titre : | AMBIO Spec No 140 - NOV 2008 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/12/2008 |
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Yoshinori Yasuda, Auteur
The forest hunter-gatherers of the middle Yangtze River basin, who were the first to invent pottery and led a sedentary lifestyle, may have begun to cultivate rice during the Bolling-Allerod interstadial global warming period. The earliest rice [...]
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Cary Fowler, Auteur
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Sander E. van der Leeuw, Auteur
This paper distinguishes three major "revolutions" in the socio-environmental interactions that reflect growth in the extent to which human beings invest in and modify their environments. As people settled in villages during the Neolithic, inter[...]
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Dan Brandstrom, Auteur
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Finn Lynge, Auteur
Greenland, and more specifically the present-day south west coastal district, is that exact spot on the world map where humankind completed its conquest of the Earth. As Norsemen coming over the Atlantic from Iceland and Norway encountered first[...]
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Eric Blinman, Auteur
Modern concerns with climate change often overlook the extensive history of both climate change and human adaptation over the millennia. While questions of human-climate system causation are important, especially to the extent that our current b[...]
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Wibjorn Karlen, Auteur
Humanity has always lived under the threat of disasters such as famine. Now that these threats have diminished considerably in the West, it seems like people need a new scare that can be shared, thereby having a uniting effect. The possible impa[...]
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Will Steffen, Auteur
The emergence of climate change as a central political issue around the world, along with growing concern for the environment more generally, has raised the challenge to achieve sustainability as a high order social goal. Yet over the 20 y since[...]
