The Recurring Dark Ages Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation,9780759104525

The Recurring Dark Ages Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation

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ISBN13: 9780759104525
ISBN10: 0759104522
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-11-17
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary

In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises a Dark Ages significant in defining the relationship between nature and culture. The author's message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarcity and climate changes, is a must-read for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists.

Author Biography

Sing C. Chew is professor at Humboldt State University and senior research scientist in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables ix
Preface xv
Part I: The Dark Ages over World History
1 System Crisis
3(18)
Part II: The Crisis of the Bronze Age
2 Nature and Culture
21(20)
3 Ecological Crisis and System Transformation
41(70)
Part III: The Crisis of Antiquity
4 Intensification of Natural and Social Systems Relations
111(28)
5 A Period of Darkness
139(30)
Part IV: System Transformation
6 From the Past to the Future: Whither System Transformation?
169(22)
Appendix 1: Arboreal Pollen Influxes 191(22)
Appendix 2: Plantago Pollen Influxes 213(18)
Appendix 3: Arboreal and Nonarboreal Pollen Influxes Percentages 231(22)
Bibliography 253(32)
Index 285(10)
About the Author 295

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