The archaeology of drylands : living at the margin / / edited by Graeme Barker and David Gilbertson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (413 p.) |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerGraeme
GilbertsonD. D |
Collana | One world archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
Social archaeology
Landscape archaeology Human ecology Deserts - History Land settlement - History Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - History Arid regions agriculture - Social aspects - History Climatic changes - History Climatic changes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-58265-X
0-415-23001-2 1-280-02108-X 9786610021086 0-203-16573-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I INTRODUCTION; 1 Living at the margin: themes in the archaeology of drylands; 2 The dynamic climatology of drylands; Part II SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL ASIA; 3 The decline of desert agriculture: a view from the classical period Negev; 4 Farmers, herders and miners in the Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan: a 10,000-year landscape archaeology; 5 Differing strategies for water supply and farming in the Syrian Black Desert
6 Irrigation agriculture in Central Asia: a long-term perspective from TurkmenistanPart III SAHARA AND SAHEL; 7 Conquests and land degradation in the eastern Maghreb during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages; 8 Success, longevity and failure of arid-land agriculture: Romano-Libyan floodwater farming in the Tripolitanian pre-desert; 9 Twelve thousand years of human adaptation in Fezzan (Libyan Sahara); 10 Farming and famine: subsistence strategies in Highland Ethiopia; Part IV EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA; 11 Engaruka: farming by irrigation in Maasailand c.AD 1400-1700 12 The agricultural landscape of the Nyanga area of Zimbabwe13 Fifteenth-century agropastoral responses to a disequilibrial ecosystem in southeastern Botswana; 14 Islands of intensive agriculture in African drylands: towards an explanatory framework; Part V NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; 15 Prehistoric agriculture and anthropogenic ecology of the North American Southwest; 16 The role of maguey in the Mesoamerican tierra fría: ethnographic, historic and archaeological perspectives; Part VI EUROPE; 17 Traditional irrigation systems in dryland Switzerland 18 Desertification, land degradation and land abandonment in the Rhône valley, FranceIndex |
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The archaeology of drylands : living at the margin / / editors, Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerGraeme
GilbertsonD. D |
Collana | One world archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
Social archaeology
Landscape archaeology Human ecology Deserts - History Land settlement - History Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - History Arid regions agriculture - Social aspects - History Climatic changes - History Climatic changes |
ISBN |
1-134-58264-1
1-134-58265-X 0-415-23001-2 1-280-02108-X 9786610021086 0-203-16573-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I INTRODUCTION; 1 Living at the margin: themes in the archaeology of drylands; 2 The dynamic climatology of drylands; Part II SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL ASIA; 3 The decline of desert agriculture: a view from the classical period Negev; 4 Farmers, herders and miners in the Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan: a 10,000-year landscape archaeology; 5 Differing strategies for water supply and farming in the Syrian Black Desert
6 Irrigation agriculture in Central Asia: a long-term perspective from Turkmenistan; Part III SAHARA AND SAHEL; 7 Conquests and land degradation in the eastern Maghreb during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages; 8 Success, longevity and failure of arid-land agriculture: Romano-Libyan floodwater farming in the Tripolitanian pre-desert; 9 Twelve thousand years of human adaptation in Fezzan (Libyan Sahara); 10 Farming and famine: subsistence strategies in Highland Ethiopia; Part IV EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA; 11 Engaruka: farming by irrigation in Maasailand c.AD 1400-1700 12 The agricultural landscape of the Nyanga area of Zimbabwe; 13 Fifteenth-century agropastoral responses to a disequilibrial ecosystem in southeastern Botswana; 14 Islands of intensive agriculture in African drylands: towards an explanatory framework; Part V NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; 15 Prehistoric agriculture and anthropogenic ecology of the North American Southwest; 16 The role of maguey in the Mesoamerican tierra fría: ethnographic, historic and archaeological perspectives; Part VI EUROPE; 17 Traditional irrigation systems in dryland Switzerland; 18 Desertification, land degradation and land abandonment in the Rhône valley, France; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777378603321 |
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The archaeology of drylands : living at the margin / / editors, Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerGraeme
GilbertsonD. D |
Collana | One world archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
Social archaeology
Landscape archaeology Human ecology Deserts - History Land settlement - History Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - History Arid regions agriculture - Social aspects - History Climatic changes - History Climatic changes |
ISBN |
1-134-58264-1
1-134-58265-X 0-415-23001-2 1-280-02108-X 9786610021086 0-203-16573-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I INTRODUCTION; 1 Living at the margin: themes in the archaeology of drylands; 2 The dynamic climatology of drylands; Part II SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL ASIA; 3 The decline of desert agriculture: a view from the classical period Negev; 4 Farmers, herders and miners in the Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan: a 10,000-year landscape archaeology; 5 Differing strategies for water supply and farming in the Syrian Black Desert
6 Irrigation agriculture in Central Asia: a long-term perspective from Turkmenistan; Part III SAHARA AND SAHEL; 7 Conquests and land degradation in the eastern Maghreb during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages; 8 Success, longevity and failure of arid-land agriculture: Romano-Libyan floodwater farming in the Tripolitanian pre-desert; 9 Twelve thousand years of human adaptation in Fezzan (Libyan Sahara); 10 Farming and famine: subsistence strategies in Highland Ethiopia; Part IV EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA; 11 Engaruka: farming by irrigation in Maasailand c.AD 1400-1700 12 The agricultural landscape of the Nyanga area of Zimbabwe; 13 Fifteenth-century agropastoral responses to a disequilibrial ecosystem in southeastern Botswana; 14 Islands of intensive agriculture in African drylands: towards an explanatory framework; Part V NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; 15 Prehistoric agriculture and anthropogenic ecology of the North American Southwest; 16 The role of maguey in the Mesoamerican tierra fría: ethnographic, historic and archaeological perspectives; Part VI EUROPE; 17 Traditional irrigation systems in dryland Switzerland; 18 Desertification, land degradation and land abandonment in the Rhône valley, France; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829169903321 |
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Climate change : what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren / / edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : MIT Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
Disciplina | 577.2/2 |
Collana | American and Comparative Environmental Policy |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - History
Climatic changes - Social aspects Communication in science |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-262-32230-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Making Climate Change Understandable; 2 A Primer on Global Climate-Change Science; 3 Climate-Change Effects, Adaptation, and Mitigation; 4 The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?; 5 Climate Change: How the World Is Responding; 6 Climate Change as News: Challenges in Communicating Environmental Science; 7 Climate Change and Human Security; 8 Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren; Glossary; Contributors; Index; Series List |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464302903321 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : MIT Press, , 2014 | ||
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Climate Change : What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren / / edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
Disciplina | 577.2 |
Collana | American and comparative environmental policy |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - History
Climatic changes - Social aspects Communication in science |
Soggetto non controllato | ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy |
ISBN |
0-262-32231-5
0-262-32230-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Making Climate Change Understandable; 2 A Primer on Global Climate-Change Science; 3 Climate-Change Effects, Adaptation, and Mitigation; 4 The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?; 5 Climate Change: How the World Is Responding; 6 Climate Change as News: Challenges in Communicating Environmental Science; 7 Climate Change and Human Security; 8 Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren; Glossary; Contributors; Index; Series List |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789258403321 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] | ||
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Climate Change : What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren / / edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
Disciplina | 577.2 |
Collana | American and comparative environmental policy |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - History
Climatic changes - Social aspects Communication in science |
Soggetto non controllato | ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy |
ISBN |
0-262-32231-5
0-262-32230-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Making Climate Change Understandable; 2 A Primer on Global Climate-Change Science; 3 Climate-Change Effects, Adaptation, and Mitigation; 4 The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?; 5 Climate Change: How the World Is Responding; 6 Climate Change as News: Challenges in Communicating Environmental Science; 7 Climate Change and Human Security; 8 Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren; Glossary; Contributors; Index; Series List |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824357603321 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] | ||
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Climate change [[electronic resource] ] : what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren / / edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 577.2/2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DiMentoJoseph F
DoughmanPamela |
Collana | American and comparative environmental policy |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - History
Climatic changes - Social aspects Communication in science |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-262-30341-8
1-282-09886-1 9786612098864 0-262-27175-3 1-4356-0310-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 - Introduction: Making Climate Change Understandable; 2 - A Primer on Global Climate Change and Its Likely Impacts; 3 - Climate-Change Effects: Global and Local Views; 4 - The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?; 5 - Climate Change: How the World is Responding; 6 - Climate Change as News: Challenges in Communicating Environmental Science; 7 - Climate Change and Human Security; 8 - Climate Change: What It Means to Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren; Glossary; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451997303321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 | ||
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Climate Change - Recent Observations / / edited by Terence Epule Epule |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : IntechOpen, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.73874 |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes
Climatic changes - History |
ISBN | 1-80355-499-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introductory Chapter: Climate Change -- 2. Spatiotemporal Variation Analysis of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness and Volume Based on CryoSat-2 Altimetry Satellite Data -- 3. The Nexus of Climate Change, Urban Infrastructure and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries -- 4. Risks and Threats on the Coast of Quintana Roo: The Case of Tulum, México -- 5. Evaluation of Net Radiation in San Luis Potosí City - México, with Remote Sensing Processes -- 6. Genetic Interaction and Inheritance of Physiobiochemical Traits Can Predict Tolerance of Maize to Water-Deficit Stress -- 7. Recent Trends in the Yield-Nutrient-Water Nexus in Morocco -- 8. Microbial and Chemical Contamination of Vegetables in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas of Sub-Sahara Africa -- 9. Arousing Public Attention on Sea Level Rise in New Zealand through Art-Science Collaboration -- 10. Adaptation Strategies for Climate Variability in the High Rainfall Zone of India, Assam -- 11. Vulnerability of Climate Change and Potential of Domestic Adaptation and Mitigation Pathways -- 12. Knowledge Coproduction for Transformative Climate Adaptation: Building Robust Strategies -- 13. Biostimulants Application: An Innovative Approach to Food Security under Drought Stress. |
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London : , : IntechOpen, , 2023 | ||
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The discovery of global warming / / Spencer R. Weart |
Autore | Weart Spencer R. <1942-> |
Edizione | [Revised and expanded edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 551.6 |
Collana | New histories of science, technology, and medicine |
Soggetto topico |
Global warming - History
Climatic changes - History Climatology - International cooperation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-41755-0 |
Classificazione | RB 10438 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | How could climate change? -- Discovering a possibility -- A delicate system -- A visible threat -- Public warnings -- The erratic beast -- Breaking into politics -- Speaking science to power -- The work completed .o.o. and begun. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464727303321 |
Weart Spencer R. <1942->
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The discovery of global warming / / Spencer R. Weart |
Autore | Weart Spencer R. <1942-> |
Edizione | [Revised and expanded edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 551.6 |
Collana | New histories of science, technology, and medicine |
Soggetto topico |
Global warming - History
Climatic changes - History Climatology - International cooperation |
ISBN |
0-674-26829-6
0-674-41755-0 |
Classificazione | RB 10438 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | How could climate change? -- Discovering a possibility -- A delicate system -- A visible threat -- Public warnings -- The erratic beast -- Breaking into politics -- Speaking science to power -- The work completed .o.o. and begun. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789290603321 |
Weart Spencer R. <1942->
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