Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas A Perspective from Historical Ecology

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2023
• Series: New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied ecology; Araucaria Araucana; Archaeology; Archaeology by period / region; Cal BP; Clam Gardens; Clam Harvesting; Climate change; climatic; Conservation of the environment; Cultural Keystone Species; Denser; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; ecological; ecology; environmental anthropology; Fire Resilience; Forest Gardens; French Guiana; Geography; High Severity Fires; Historical Ecology; History and Archaeology; Human geography; Interdisciplinary studies; Late Holocene; Lightning Ignitions; Low Intertidal; Maroni River; Maya Forest; Medieval Climatic Anomaly; Mogollon Rim; Physical geography and topography; Pollution and threats to the environment; Ponderosa Pine Forests; Prairie Peninsula; pre-Columbian; Quadra Island; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Sea Water; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology; The environment
• ISBN: 9781032321073; 1000924386; 9781032327433; 1000924300; 9781000924305; 103232743X; 9781000924381; 1003316492; 9781003316497; 1032321075
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003316497

This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework for understanding the climate change crisis throughout the region and throughout time. In recent years, Indigenous and local populations in particular have experienced climate change effects such as altered weather patterns, seasonal irregularities, flooding and drought, and difficulties relating to subsistence practices. Understanding and dealing with these challenges has drawn on peoples’ longstanding experience with climate variability and in some cases includes models of mitigation and responses that are millennia old. With contributions from specialists across the Americas, this volume will be of interest to scholars from fields including anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental studies, and Indigenous studies.