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| Other authors / contributors: | Costanza, Robert.
Graumlich, Lisa.
Steffen, W. L. (William L.), 1947-
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| ISBN: | 9780262270861
0262270862
1429421045
9781429421041
0262033666
9780262033664
9786612096983
6612096985
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | "Report of the 96th Dahlem Workshop on Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) Berlin, June 12-17, 2005."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future.Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary weather" of El Nino from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.
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| Other form: | Print version: Dahlem Workshop on Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (2005 : Berlin, Germany). Sustainability or collapse?. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press, ©2007 0262033666
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