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Climatic and ecological change in the Americas : a perspective from historical ecology
Reyes-García, Victoria
Junqueira, André B

Imprint: London : Routledge, 2023
Description: 10 pàg.
Abstract: This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines different climate change experiences across the Americas using historical ecology as a structuring framework for understanding climatic and environmental change across space and through time. It argues that the drier period accompanying the Medieval Climatic Anomaly most likely affected demographic and settlement patterns in Amazonian populations. The book also argues that climatic changes in the Maya region coincide with the emergence of permanent settlements and with an increase in landscape management, leading to substantial changes in forest composition. It then shows how Indigenous peoples in eastern North America prevented ecological changes associated with climatic impacts and preserved prairies and pyrophytic forests through ecological management that mimicked past climate conditions. The book uses the concept of "relational models" to analyze the spatio-temporal pattern of the Pewen landscape use in Argentina and Chile.
Grants: European Commission 771056
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M
Rights: Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades. Creative Commons
Language: Anglès
Document: Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject: SDG 13 - Climate Action
Published in: Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas, 2023, p. 229-238, ISBN 9781003316497

DOI: 10.4324/9781003316497-14


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