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- catalog abstract "Lush tropical rainforest, harsh arctic tundra, and hot, dry desert. While worlds apart in geography and topography, each environment has one common denominator: people. For millions of years humans have adapted to, been influenced by, and influenced their surroundings. This comprehensive volume examines the interesting and varied environments in which humans have survived and often thrived. While the author primarily emphasizes our physical environment - climate, weather, landforms, and natural resources, including plants - he also gives careful consideration to the interrelationships among the physical environment and the biological, socio-cultural, and supernatural environments. A comparison of annual subsistence cycles, patterns of settlement, dwellings, methods used to collect food, beliefs about environmental features, and efforts to control environmental events helps trace the patterns of adaptation and allows readers to understand the role of physical environment in the human experience. Filled with alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced entries with bibliographic citations, this volume, while extensive in scope, extracts the particulars of varied human environments and translates them into terms easily accessible to students. Illustrations, a master bibliography, maps showing the locations of cultures, and a subject index complete the work.".
- catalog contributor b8910335.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Agriculture -- Animal Domestication -- Annual Cycle -- Aurora Borealis -- Built Environments -- Calendars -- Carrying Capacity -- Color -- Direction -- Dwellings -- Earth, Land, and Soil -- Environmental Disasters -- Environmental Ethics -- Environmental Uncertainty and Risk -- Famine -- Fire -- Fishing -- Gardens and Gardening -- Geomancy -- Green Revolution -- Horticulture -- Hot and Cold States -- Hunting-Gathering -- Irrigation -- Measures and Measurement -- Mining -- Mobility and Sedentism -- Pastoralism -- Place Names -- Precipitation -- Rainbow -- Ranching -- Seasons -- Settlement Patterns -- Shadow -- Space -- Stars and Planets -- Storms -- Subsistence Systems -- Sun and Moon -- Technology -- Terraces -- Territory and Territoriality -- Thunder and Lightning -- Time -- Totemism -- Tragedy of the Commons -- Universe -- Water -- Weather Control -- Wind.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-[274]) and index.".
- catalog description "Lush tropical rainforest, harsh arctic tundra, and hot, dry desert. While worlds apart in geography and topography, each environment has one common denominator: people. For millions of years humans have adapted to, been influenced by, and influenced their surroundings. This comprehensive volume examines the interesting and varied environments in which humans have survived and often thrived. While the author primarily emphasizes our physical environment - climate, weather, landforms, and natural resources, including plants - he also gives careful consideration to the interrelationships among the physical environment and the biological, socio-cultural, and supernatural environments. A comparison of annual subsistence cycles, patterns of settlement, dwellings, methods used to collect food, beliefs about environmental features, and efforts to control environmental events helps trace the patterns of adaptation and allows readers to understand the role of physical environment in the human experience. Filled with alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced entries with bibliographic citations, this volume, while extensive in scope, extracts the particulars of varied human environments and translates them into terms easily accessible to students. Illustrations, a master bibliography, maps showing the locations of cultures, and a subject index complete the work.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 284 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Human environments.".
- catalog identifier "0874367840 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Human environments.".
- catalog isPartOf "Encyclopedias of the human experience".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO,".
- catalog relation "Human environments.".
- catalog subject "304.2/03 20".
- catalog subject "GF4 .L49 1995".
- catalog subject "Human ecology Encyclopedias.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Agriculture -- Animal Domestication -- Annual Cycle -- Aurora Borealis -- Built Environments -- Calendars -- Carrying Capacity -- Color -- Direction -- Dwellings -- Earth, Land, and Soil -- Environmental Disasters -- Environmental Ethics -- Environmental Uncertainty and Risk -- Famine -- Fire -- Fishing -- Gardens and Gardening -- Geomancy -- Green Revolution -- Horticulture -- Hot and Cold States -- Hunting-Gathering -- Irrigation -- Measures and Measurement -- Mining -- Mobility and Sedentism -- Pastoralism -- Place Names -- Precipitation -- Rainbow -- Ranching -- Seasons -- Settlement Patterns -- Shadow -- Space -- Stars and Planets -- Storms -- Subsistence Systems -- Sun and Moon -- Technology -- Terraces -- Territory and Territoriality -- Thunder and Lightning -- Time -- Totemism -- Tragedy of the Commons -- Universe -- Water -- Weather Control -- Wind.".
- catalog title "Human environments : a cross-cultural encyclopedia / David Levinson.".
- catalog type "Encyclopedias. fast".
- catalog type "text".