Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas : A Perspective from Historical Ecology (Paperback)

Foreword

William Balee

Introduction

1 "Open the Floodgates of Heaven": Amazonian Climate Change in Pre-Columbian Times

2 The Milpa Cycle as a Sustainable Ecological Resource

Anabel Ford

3 Confronting Climatic Instability in Coastal California Through the Lens of Archaeology and Historical Ecology

4 Indigenous People Prevented Climate-Induced Ecological Change for Millennia: Evidence from the Prairie Peninsula and Fire-Loving Forests of Eastern North America

5 Indigenous Land Use and Fire Resilience of Southwest USA Ponderosa Pine Forests

6 Different Relational Models have Shaped the Biocultural Conservation over Time of Araucaria araucana Forests and Their People

7 Ancient and Ongoing Land-Use as Climate Change Mitigation in Ts’msyen, Heiltsuk, and Wuikinuxv Homelands

8 Clam Gardens Across Generations and Places Support Social-Ecological Resilience to Global Change

9 Ancient Knowledge, Future Wisdom: Archaeological Perspectives of Caribbean Coastal Food and Habitat Security during Times of Climate Crises

10 Whose Climate Change Is It? A Thousand-Year Example of Kali’na Responses to Shifting Coastal Landscapes in the Lower Maroni River

11 Long-Term Ecological and Climate Changes through Amazonian Indigenous Oral Histories

12 Owning Climate Change among the Makushi and Akawaio

Postface