The Resilience and Vulnerability of Ancient Landscapes

Transforming Maya Archaeology through IHOPE

Vernon L Scarborough author Arlen F Chase author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:23rd Oct '14

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The Resilience and Vulnerability of Ancient Landscapes cover

This volume represents the concerted efforts of a group of Maya archaeologists to employ a different approach to their archaeological data that is consistent with an effort called IHOPE: Integrated History and Future of People on Earth. IHOPE is a global network of scientists and researchers that seeks to use a wide range of data to examine how changes in the Earth's systems of the past have been correlated with changes in the coupled human-biophysical environment (Costanza et al. 2007). “The specific objectives for IHOPE are to identify slow and rapidly moving features of complex social-ecological systems, on local to continental spatial scales, which induce resilience, stress, or collapse in linked systems of humans and nature. These objectives will be reached by exploring innovative ways of conducting inter and trans-disciplinary science, including theory, case studies, and integrated modeling” (Costanza et al. 2012:1). The integration of these data, a large portion of which are derived from archaeology, is seen as an important contribution to the accurate and applicable information base for addressing both short- and long-term planning issues facing modern populations.

ISBN: 9781119016731

Dimensions: 279mm x 216mm x 13mm

Weight: 558g

200 pages