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“the clearest example of a society that destroyed itself by overexploiting its own resources.” (Diamond 2005)
“small islands, whether located in the tropics or higher latitudes, have characteristics which make them especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, sea level rise, and extreme events (very high confidence).” (Mimura et al. 2007 IPCC)
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2. How can we maintain biodiversity during the planet’s sixth extinction
3. How can we feed another 2 billion people
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RiskVulnerability
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Comparative Island Ecodynamics Climatic and Environmental Hazards
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• NaturalEnvironmentResearchCouncil(grantno.P17233‐60)
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S U R V I V I N G S U D D E NE N V I R O N M E N T A L C H A N G E
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COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Eruption of Sarychev Volcano on June 12, 2009, as photographed by the International Space Station; image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center (ISS020-E-9048; http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov).
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Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigra-phy. In Surviving Sudden En!ironmental Change, case studies examine how eight di!erent past hu-man communities—ranging from Arctic to equa-torial regions, from tropical rainforests to des-ert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory—faced and coped with such dangers.
Many disasters originate from a force of na-ture, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, vol-canic eruption, drought, or "ood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their par-ticular cultural lifeways are the rest. Sociocultural factors are essential in understanding risk, impact, resilience, reactions, and recoveries from massive sudden environmental changes. By using deep-time perspectives provided by interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides a rich temporal background to the human experience of environ-mental hazards and disasters. In addition, each chapter is followed by an abstract summarizing the important implications for today’s manage-ment practices and providing recommendations for policy makers.
Publication supported in part by the
National Science Foundation.
JAGO COOPER is an Arts and Humanities Research Council research associate and lectures at the Insti-tute of Archaeology, University College London.
PAYSON SHEETS is a professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS
David Abbott
Marty Anderies
Andrew Dugmore
Ben Fitzhugh
Michelle Hegmon
Scott Ingram
Keith Kintigh
Ann Kinzig
Timothy Kohler
Stephanie Kulow
Emily McClung de Tapia
Thomas McGovern
Cathryn Meegan
Ben Nelson
Margaret Nelson
Tate Paulette
Matthew Peeples
Jeffrey Quilter
Charles Redman
Daniel Sandweiss
Katherine Spielmann
Colleen Strawhacker
Orri Vésteinsson
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