Research Catalog

Title

Case studies in human ecology / edited by Daniel G. Bates and Susan H. Lees.

Publication

New York, NY : Plenum Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Bates, Daniel G.
• Lees, Susan H.

Description

xi, 407 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Human ecology > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Australian Aboriginal Subsistence in the Western Desert / Scott Cane -- 2. The Ecological Basis of Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in African Rain Forests: The Mbuti of Eastern Zaire / Terese B. Hart and John A. Hart -- 3. Batak Foraging Camps Today: A Window to the History of a Hunting-Gathering Economy / James F. Eder -- 4. Northern Islands, Human Error, and Environmental Degradation / Thomas H. McGovern, Gerald F. Bigelow, Thomas Amorosi and Daniel Russell -- 5. Who Survives Drought? Measuring Winners and Losers among the Ariaal Rendille Pastoralists of Kenya / Elliot Fratkin and Eric Abella Roth -- 6. Coping with Drought: Responses of Herders and Livestock in Contrasting Savanna Environments in Southern Zimbabwe / Ian Scoones -- 7. From Zomo to Yak: Change in a Sherpa Village / Naomi H. Bishop -- 8. What Alpine Peasants Have in Common: Observations on a Communal Tenure in a Swiss Village / Robert McC. Netting --
• 9. Changing Household Composition, Labor Patterns, and Fertility in a Highland New Guinea Population / Patricia Lyons Johnson -- 10. Variation and Change in Fertility in West Central Nepal / Steven Folmar -- 11. Land Use, Soil Loss, and Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda / Daniel C. Clay and Laurence A. Lewis -- 12. Agricultural Intensification in a Philippine Frontier Community: Impact on Labor Efficiency and Farm Diversity / W. Thomas Conelly -- 13. Seventeenth-Century Organic Agriculture in China / Wen Dazhong and David Pimentel -- 14. Kofyar Cash-Cropping: Choice and Change in Indigenous Agricultural Development / Robert McC. Netting, M. Priscilla Stone and Glenn Davis Stone -- 15. Time, Space, and Transnational Flows: Critical Historical Conjunctures and Explaining Change in Northern Nigerian Agriculture / Louise D. Lennihan -- 16. Ecology and Mormon Settlement in Northeastern Arizona / William S. Abruzzi.

ISBN

• 0306452456
• 0306452464 (pbk.)

LCCN

96009676

OCLC

• 35001736
• ocm35001736

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries