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Title: World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization and Deforestation 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000 by Sing C. Chew ISBN: 0-7591-0031-4 Publisher: Altamira Press Pub. Date: 25 May, 2001 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Underresearched and overreaching.
Comment: One does not need to write a book about the weather when he can simply stick his head out the window.
Although this work compiles some useful data and facts, it does little to answer the most important questions concerning societal collapse. It is not enough to say that rising populations and urban settlements tax the environment, this is obvious; the question is why do populations rise in the first place and why do these populations organize themselves in highly stratified systems with specialized economies necessitating great amounts of food surpluses and specialist produced craft goods?
Moreover, this work attempts to tackle a subject that anthropological archaeologists have been working on diligently for decades without referring to much of their work. For instance Flannery, 1972 isn't even in the bibliography and Culbert's synthesis of the vast amount of Mayan archaeology completed in the 1970's to get at these very ecological questions isn't either.
Rating: 2
Summary: Under-researched and overreaching.
Comment: One does not need to write a book about the weather when he can simply stick his head out the window.
Although this work compiles some useful data and facts, it does little to answer the most important questions concerning societal collapse. It is not enough to say that rising populations and urban settlements tax the environment, this is obvious; the question is why do populations rise in the first place and why do these populations organize themselves in highly stratified systems with specialized economies necessitating great amounts of food surpluses and specialist produced craft goods?
Moreover, this work attempts to tackle a subject that anthropological archaeologists have been working on diligently for decades without referring to much of their work. For instance Flannery, 1972 isn't even in the bibliography and Culbert's synthesis of the vast amount of Mayan archaeology completed in the 1970's to get at these very ecological questions isn't either.
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Title: The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin ISBN: 0300101112 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 10 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature by Carl N. McDaniel, John M. Gowdy ISBN: 0520222296 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States by John Opie ISBN: 0155002198 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $55.95 |
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Title: Great Women Masters of Art by Jordi Vigue ISBN: 0823021149 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification ISBN: 0127415505 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $129.95 |
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