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Other authors / contributors: | McIntosh, Roderick J.
Tainter, Joseph A.
McIntosh, Susan Keech.
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ISBN: | 0231505787 9780231505789 0231112084 9780231112086 0231112092 9780231112093 9781306313254 1306313252
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, ProQuest 3 User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password. Print version record.
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Summary: | Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other environmental changes and to synthesize the implications of these historical patterns for present-day sustainability spurred a conference of the world's leading scholars on the topic. The Way the Wind Blows is the rich result of that conference. Articles discuss the dynamics of climate, human perceptions of and responses to the environment, and issues of sustainability and resiliency. These themes are illustrated through discussions of human societies around the world and throughout history.
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Other form: | Print version: Way the wind blows. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000 0231112084
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Publisher's no.: | EB00662289 Recorded Books
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