Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments (Record no. 95479)

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International Standard Book Number 9781461457022
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-1-4614-5702-2
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Subject category code SOC002000
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Classification number 301
Edition number 23
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Personal name Lozny, Ludomir R.
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Title Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Ludomir R. Lozny.
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Extent X, 410 p. 151 illus., 104 illus. in color.
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Series statement Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation,
International Standard Serial Number 1574-0501 ;
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Summary, etc Continuity and Change in Cultural Mountain Adaptations: From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats presents an international and interdisciplinary account of human cultural adaptation to mountainous environments over time. Mountain ecosystems are critical to the wellbeing of sizable populations in Eurasia, the Americas, and Africa. The book presents the evidence on continuity of human cultural adaptation to mountain ecosystems and also on contemporary threats and vulnerabilities caused by intensification in mining, agriculture, and tourism.  The essays collected here discuss human responses to key physical and cultural stressors impacting human wellbeing in mountain ecosystems, such as aridity, quality of soils, steep slopes, industrialization and infrastructural change, low productivity, adverse effects of centralized political decision-making, deforestation and erosion, tourism, and the possible effects of climate change. The contributors who are cultural anthropologists, geographers, archaeologists, ecologists, and cultural resource managers and planners all point out that mountain populations cope with the stressors by adopting specific cultural strategies, such as seasonal migrations, integration of pastoral and agricultural production, animal crossbreeding, use of crop varieties, a mixture of communal and household control of land, trade, crop diversity, diversification of activities, and technological innovations and innovative scheduling of productive activities.  Continuity and Change in Cultural Mountain Adaptations: From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats will be of interest to archaeologists, cultural resource managers, anthropologists, ecologists, climatologists, and geologists because mountainous ecosystems change fast, and cultures disappear and they need to be recorded.  Most importantly, cultural responses of mountain populations provide clues for us all in this time of environmental change.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Endangered ecosystems.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human Geography.
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Title Springer eBooks
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International Standard Book Number 9781461457015
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Uniform title Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation,
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