Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas J. Kennett, Bruce Winterhalder |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (409 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.3/64 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KennettDouglas J
WinterhalderBruce |
Collana | Origins of Human Behavior and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture - Origin
Agriculture, Prehistoric Human behavior Human ecology Human evolution |
Soggetto non controllato |
agriculture
andes animal domestication arabia archaeology arizona cumberland domestic animals early civilization ecology environment food production foraging fremont hbe highlands history human behavior human behavioral ecology hunting and gathering indigenous culture indigenous people land use madagascar maize mikea neotropics new guinea nonfiction oceania pacific coast plant domestication rain barrier science valencia wild animals |
ISBN |
1-282-75943-4
9786612759437 0-520-93245-5 1-59875-917-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Agriculture -- 2. A Future Discounting Explanation for the Persistence of a Mixed Foraging-Horticulture Strategy among the Mikea of Madagascar -- 3. Central Place Foraging and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Eastern Kentucky -- 4. Aspects of Optimization and Risk During the Early Agricultural Period in Southeastern Arizona -- 5. A Formal Model for Predicting Agriculture among the Fremont -- 6. An Ecological Model for the Origins of Maize-Based Food Production on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico -- 7. The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the Neotropics -- 8. Costly Signaling, the Sexual Division of Labor, and Animal Domestication in the Andean Highlands -- 9. Human Behavioral Ecology, Domestic Animals, and Land Use during the Transition to Agriculture in Valencia, Eastern Spain -- 10. Breaking the Rain Barrier and the Tropical Spread of Near Eastern Agriculture into Southern Arabia -- 11. The Emergence of Agriculture in New Guinea -- 12. The Ideal Free Distribution, Food Production, and the Colonization of Oceania -- 13. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Food Production -- 14. Agriculture, Archaeology, and Human Behavioral Ecology -- References -- Index |
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Reforming trade policy in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands / / Kym Anderson and Malcolm Bosworth [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Anderson Kym |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Adelaide Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 382/.0995 |
Collana | Reprints collection : Economics Reforming trade policy in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands |
Soggetto topico | Economic growth |
Soggetto non controllato |
oceania
papua new guinea asia pacific economic cooperation (organization) commercial policy foreign economic relations Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Developing country National treatment Tariff World Trade Organization |
ISBN |
9780980623826 ‡q (ebook)
0980623820 ‡q (ebook) 9780980623826 9780980623895 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Reforming Trade Policy in Papua New Guinea & the Pacific Islands |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141820603321 |
Anderson Kym
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Tropical forests of Oceania : anthropological perspectives / / edited by Joshua A. Bell, Paige West and Colin Filer |
Autore | Bell Joshua A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
Disciplina | 577.34 |
Collana | Asia-Pacific environment monograph |
Soggetto topico |
Rain forests - Oceania
Forest conservation - Oceania Forests and forestry - Oceania Human ecology - Oceania |
Soggetto non controllato |
oceania
tropical forests political ecology anthropology Deforestation Kamula language Logging Lumber Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation |
ISBN | 1-925022-73-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Joshua A. Bell, Paige West and Colin Filer -- Wildlands, deserted bays and other bushy metaphors of Pacific place / Alexander Mawyer -- Non-pristine forests : a long-term history of land transformation in the western Solomons / Edvard Hviding -- Forests of gold : from mining to logging (and back again) / Jamon Alex Halvaksz -- The impact of mining development on settlement patterns, firewood availability and forest structure in Porgera / Jerry K. Jacka -- The structural violence of resource extraction in the Purari Delta / Joshua A. Bell -- The fate of Crater Mountain : forest conservation in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea / Paige West and Enock Kale -- How April Salumei became the REDD queen / Colin Filer -- Representational excess in recent attempts to acquire forest carbon in the Kamula Doso area, Western Province, Papua New Guinea / Michael Wood -- 'Evergreen' and REDD+ in the forests of Oceania / Jennifer Gabriel. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131523603321 |
Bell Joshua A
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