By Mike T. Carson
Landscapes were fundamental
to the human event world-wide and all through time, but how did we as human
beings evolve or co-evolve with our landscapes?
By answering this question, we will be able to comprehend our position within the complex,
ever-changing global that we inhabit.
This
book courses readers on a trip throughout the concurrent procedures of swap in
an built-in natural-cultural historical past of a landscape. whereas outlining the final rules for
global program, a richly illustrated case is available during the Mariana
Islands within the northwest tropical Pacific and moreover positioned in a larger
Asia-Pacific context for a whole comprehension of panorama evolution at
variable scales. The writer examines what
happened throughout the first time while humans encountered the world’s Remote
Oceanic surroundings within the Mariana Islands approximately 3500 years in the past, by way of a
continuous series of adjusting sea point, weather, water assets, forest
composition, human inhabitants progress, and social dynamics. This e-book presents a high-resolution and
long-term view of the complexities of panorama evolution that impact all of us
today.
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