Open Access Book: Surviving Sudden Environmental Change
Answers From Archaeology
Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change,
case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging
from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert
interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory-faced and coped
with such dangers.
Many disasters originate from a
force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic
eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story;
decisions of people and their particular cultural lifeways are the rest.
Sociocultural factors are essential in understanding risk, impact,
resilience, reactions, and recoveries from massive sudden environmental
changes. By using deep-time perspectives provided by interdisciplinary
approaches, this book provides a rich temporal background to the human
experience of environmental hazards and disasters. In addition, each
chapter is followed by an abstract summarizing the important
implications for today's management practices and providing
recommendations for policy makers.
Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation.
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