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People and Mountain Environments: Interconnectedness for Sustainable Development in the Himalayas
by Pardeep Singh Anwesha BorthakurPeople living in the mountains maintain a unique relationship with their surrounding environment. Humans have settled in mountainous regions all across the globe for centuries, adapting to the challenging terrains and establishing exceptional cultural practices and lifestyles. Until today, they depend on their immediate ecosystems for their everyday necessities while also conserving those environments through their own traditional practices and belief systems. Understanding and addressing the ease and complexities of the relationship between people and mountains is essential for sustainable development through overall conservation and well-being of both the environment and the communities living in these regions. The mountain communities in the Himalayas and their interconnectedness with their surroundings could provide important insights in this regard. For instance, the interaction between humans and mountains in the Himalayas is diverse, spanning across various cultural, economic, political, environmental and recreational dimensions and parameters. As sustainable development is a core goal of the world today, it is both interesting and pertinent to explore these various aspects and locate possible learnings in the present-day global environmental scenario. Accordingly, this book is an attempt to situate the interconnected between people and the mountains in the Himalayan landscape towards tracing learnings for sustainable development. Our aim is to edit a holistic volume where aspects ranging from ecosystem services to cultural and spiritual significances of the mountains for the local communities and from contributions of the Himalayas in relation to water, agriculture and food practices to the challenges associated with haphazard infrastructural developments and environmental justice implications are adequately addressed. We acknowledge that balancing the human needs of the mountain communities while ensuring environmental conservation is a major challenge. Ecologically fragile and biodiversity rich the Himalayan region is no exception. Further, mountain communities in the Himalayas are facing tremendous challenges in adapting to changing climate conditions, such as altered precipitation patterns and increased frequency of extreme weather events. Unsustainable economic activities in the form of chaotic tourism practices and infrastructural developments among others add to the emerging challenges. Accordingly, it is important to put research efforts towards active sustainable development practices where human needs are met while minimizing undesirable impacts on the Himalayan mountain ecosystems. The Himalayas are critical for global ecological balance. Therefore, this book will not only be helpful for the countries situated in these mountain regions alone, but also will provide useful insights for environmental sustainability at a much larger global scale.
People and Nature: An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations (Primers in Anthropology #1)
by Emilio F. MoranNow updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world. Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studies Addresses new issues of importance, including climate change, population change, the rise of the slow food and farm-to-table movements, and consumer-driven shifts in sustainability Explains key theoretical issues in the field, as well as the most important research, at a level appropriate for readers coming to the topic for the first time Discusses the challenges in ensuring a livable future for generations to come and explores solutions for correcting the damage already done to the environment Offers a powerful, hopeful future vision for improved relations between humans and nature that embraces the idea of community needs rather than consumption wants, and the importance of building trust as a foundation for a sustainable future
People and Place: The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life
by Phil Hubbard Lewis HollowayAn innovative introduction to Human Geography, exploring different ways of studying the relationships between people and place, and putting people at the centre of human geography. The book covers behavioural, humanistic and cultural traditions, showing how these can lead to a nuanced understanding of how we relate to our surroundings on a day-to-day basis. The authors also explore how human geography is currently influenced by 'postmodern' ideas stressing difference and diversity. While taking the importance of these different approaches seriously as ways of thinking about the role of place in peoples' everyday lives, the book also tries to encapsulate what has been so vibrant and exciting about human geography over the last couple of decades. By using examples to which students can relate - such as how they imagine and represent their home, the way they avoid certain spaces, how they move through retail spaces, where they choose to go to university, how they use the Internet, how they represent other nations and so on - the authors show how geography shapes everyday life in a manner that is seemingly mundane yet profoundly important.
People and Places
by Candy Dawson Boyd C. Frederick Risinger Geneva Gay Rita Geiger James B. Kracht Valerie Ooka Pang Sara Miranda SanchezA book which tells us that one should learn about community, neighborhood and history of your country.
People and Places Citizenship
by Dinah Zike James A. Banks Kevin P. Colleary Linda Greenow Walter C. Parker Emily M. Schell Irma M. Olmedo Raymond C. JonesMacmillian/McGraw-Hill TIMELINKS Grade 1 (or grade 2) builds geographic mastery with mapsand skills, offers reading skills and strategies to reinforce Reading/Language Arts skills,and integrates Dinah Zike's Foldables® to help students improve comprehension. * Five books: Citizenship, Culture, Economics, Geography, History * Available as single copies or in grade level sets
People and Places Economics
by Dinah Zike James A. Banks Kevin P. Colleary Linda Greenow Walter C. Parker Emily M. Schell Irma M. Olmedo Raymond C. JonesMacmillian/McGraw-Hill TIMELINKS Grade 1 (or grade 2) builds geographic mastery with mapsand skills, offers reading skills and strategies to reinforce Reading/Language Arts skills,and integrates Dinah Zike's Foldables® to help students improve comprehension. * Five books: Citizenship, Culture, Economics, Geography, History * Available as single copies or in grade level sets
People and Places Geography
by Dinah Zike James A. Banks Kevin P. Colleary Linda Greenow Walter C. Parker Emily M. Schell Irma M. Olmedo Raymond C. JonesMacmillian/McGraw-Hill TIMELINKS Grade 1 (or grade 2) builds geographic mastery with mapsand skills, offers reading skills and strategies to reinforce Reading/Language Arts skills,and integrates Dinah Zike's Foldables® to help students improve comprehension. * Five books: Citizenship, Culture, Economics, Geography, History * Available as single copies or in grade level sets
People and Places: History
by Dinah Zike James A. Banks Kevin P. Colleary Linda Greenow Walter C. Parker Emily M. Schell Irma M. Olmedo Raymond C. JonesMacmillian/McGraw-Hill TIMELINKS Grade 1 (or grade 2) builds geographic mastery with mapsand skills, offers reading skills and strategies to reinforce Reading/Language Arts skills,and integrates Dinah Zike's Foldables® to help students improve comprehension. * Five books: Citizenship, Culture, Economics, Geography, History * Available as single copies or in grade level sets
People and Societies: Rom Harré and Designing the Social Sciences (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Luk Van LangenhoveRom Harré has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. His countless books and articles have inspired generations of scholars in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and social theory. The diversity of his work makes that some see him as a leading figure in the critical realist school of philosophy of science, other as a key player in developing a social constructionist approach to psychology. The present volume brings together a careful selection of his key writings and presents them in a framework that stresses the evolution of his thinking as well as the place of his thinking in ongoing debates in different disciplines. The overall theme is the study of people and their ways of life. This is the first book that gives readers a systematic introduction in the conceptual universe of this towering figure.
People and Society in Scotland, 1830–1914
by W. Hamish FraserThis is the second volume of a three-volume study of Scottish social change and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, originally published by John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland. The series covers the history of industrialisation and urbanisation in Scottish society and records many experiences which Scotland shared in common with other societies, looking at the impact of those changes throughout the spectrum of society from croft, bothy and hunting lodge to mines, foundries and urban poor houses. The series is intended to illustrate the identity and distinctiveness of Scotland through its separate institutions and through areas such as language, law and religion and recognises Scotland as a multi-cultured society, the highland and lowland cultures being only two among several.
People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases
by Penelope M. AllisonThis study uses artefact distribution analyses to investigate the activities that took place inside early Roman imperial military bases. Focusing especially on non-combat activities, it explores the lives of families and other support personnel who are widely assumed to have inhabited civilian settlements outside the fortification walls. Spatial analyses, in GIS-type environments, are used to develop fresh perspectives on the range of people who lived within the walls of these military establishments, the various industrial, commercial, domestic and leisure activities in which they and combat personnel were involved, and the socio-spatial organisation of these activities and these establishments. The book includes examples of both legionary fortresses and auxiliary forts from the German provinces to demonstrate that more material-cultural approaches to the artefact assemblages from these sites give greater insights into how these military communities operated and demonstrate the problems of ascribing functions to buildings without investigating the full material record.
People and the Countryside (Routledge Revivals)
by H. E. BraceyRapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s and the work of the Countryside in 1970 Conferences with which the author had been closely connected.The book examines the role played by man in the shaping of the British landscape, and discusses the considerable changes there have been in our time in, for example, the number and distribution of people over the country and the availability of work in the countryside. Dr Bracey assesses the influence of developments in mobility on life in the country, and looks at rural local government with especial regard to land-use planning.As more people used more of the countryside for many new purposes, there was a growing concern about access to open spaces, common land and forest, and about the provision of facilities and the conservation of amenities. Dr Bracey shows how the Countryside Act of 1968, which he describes as a townsman’s charter for the greater use of the countryside for recreation, at the same time pays heed to the needs of the countryside and the claims of country people. The final chapters of the book look at the Government White Paper, ‘Leisure in the Countryside’, and explore its real meaning in the context of leisure in general, the recreational use of land, the facilities needed for exploiting and conserving countryside amenities, and the need for ‘management’ of the countryside in the 1970s. Today it can be read in its historical context.
People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History, Second Edition
by Emily W. SouthgateA revised and updated edition of a classic book that defines the field of historical ecologyPeople and the Land through Time, first published in 1997, remains the only introduction to the field of historical ecology from the perspective of ecology and ecosystem processes. Widely praised for its emphasis on the integration of historical information into scientific analyses, it will be useful to an interdisciplinary audience of students and professionals in ecology, conservation, history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology. This up-to-date second edition addresses current issues in historical ecology such as the proposed geological epoch, the Anthropocene; historical species dispersal and extinction; the impacts of past climatic fluctuations; and trends in sustainability and conservation.
People in the Americas Before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Western Hemisphere Population Origin Paradigm
by Bonnye MatthewsWARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong.People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere. It is a booklet that is designed to provide a reference bridge until the new information can be included in textbook presentations. With the ability to examine DNA evidence on extremely old human remains and findings at greater depth than formerly considered, information grows at a rapid rate. The science is in its infancy, but surprising finds occur moment by moment.
People of Ancient Assyria: Their Inscriptions and Correspondence (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology)
by Jørgen LæssøeWas Assyria merely a more brutal, more uncivilized and less interesting offshoot of the culture created by Sumerians and Babylonians in Southern Mesopotamia at the dawn of history? Do the Assyrian reliefs that fill our museums give a complete picture of the phenomenon that was Assyria? Was the contribution of this people to world culture merely an incredibly effective military organization? The answers to these questions are sought here in this detailed book from 1963, referring to personal documents of the time, in the letters Assyrians wrote to one another rather than in the annals of the rulers.
People of Florence: A Study in Locality (Routledge Revivals)
by Joseph MacleodFirst Published in 1968, People of Florence raises the question what makes a city? This is neither a guidebook nor a typical sociological treatise, but the portrait of a people. Trinkets of history are lightly painted in to give background to what the author calls ‘locality’: Florence of today as formed by her past and by the physical conditions of Tuscany. Two principal chapters are intimately concerned with the flood of 1966. The author also takes us through the relation between the individual liberties in Florence and the bureaucratic controls of the Government in Rome, along with the architecture, art, music, theatre, song birds, flowers, trees, food and drink, public ceremonies, games, ancient rites, and human stories. This book will be an interesting read for scholars and researchers of sociology, urban history, social anthropology, cultural studies and for general readers interested to know about Florence.
People of Michigan (Heinemann State Studies)
by Marcia SchonbergWho were the first people to live in Michigan? Which residents became famous, and why? This book contains fascinating stories of the many different people who have made Michigan what it is today. You will find information about the first people of Michigan and the settlers who came later. You'll also learn about the different cultural groups found in Michigan.
People of Ohio (Heinemann State Studies)
by Marcia SchonbergWhich presidents were born in Ohio? How has the population of Ohio changed over the years? You can find the answers to these questions in People of Ohio. This book contains fascinating stories of the many different people who have made Ohio what it is today. You will learn about the different cultural groups found in Ohio. You will find out why Ohio is not only the "Mother of Presidents," but the "Mother of Astronauts" and the "Mother of Inventors," too!
People of Substance
by Carlos Londono-SulkinPeople of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves 'People of the Center. ' Carlos David Londoño Sulkin examines this group's understandings and practices relating to selfhood, social organization, livelihood, and symbolism. Through this, he makes a strong case for increased anthropological attention to morality and ethics.Londoño Sulkin explains a number of key issues and debates in Amazonian anthropology with great clarity, making People of Substance a useful text for students. At the same time, it is theoretically sophisticated, combining innovative research methods with sound analysis of empirically gathered material. Contributing both to accounts of regional history and to discussions on anthropology and history, People of Substance offers valuable engagement with concepts of structure, agency, and freedom.
People of the Comb: Zeitgenössiche Haarpolitik in Ghana ((Re-)konstruktionen - Internationale und Globale Studien)
by Sandrine Micossé-Aikins"Afrika" dient in vielen haarpolitischen Debatten nur als positive und teilweise sehr unpräzise definierte Projektionsfläche, die für eine bessere vorkoloniale Schwarze Welt steht. Nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit wurde bisher darauf verwendet, die tatsächlich gegenwärtig gelebte Haarkultur- und -politik in verschiedenen kontinentalafrikanischen Kontexten auch auf ihr Eingebettet-Sein in globale, historisch gewachsene Hierarchien hin zu betrachten. Oft wird übersehen, dass auch hier – auf ihre eigene Weise – rassistische Ideologien und insbesondere weiße Vorherrschaft als koloniale Kontinuitäten wirken, und zeitgenössische Haarkultur mitprägen. Die vorliegende Arbeit möchte einen Beitrag dazu leisten, diese Dynamiken besser zu verstehen. Dabei werden jedoch auch relevante Facetten Schwarzen Selbstverständnisses und gelebte ästhetische Praktiken beleuchtet, die über die Auseinandersetzung mit weißer Vorherrschaft hinausweisen.
People of the Deer
by Farley MowatIn 1886, the Ihalmiut of northern Canada numbered 7,000 souls; by 1946, when 25-year-old Farley Mowat travelled to the Arctic, their population had dwindled to only 40. Living among them, he observed the millennia-old migration of the caribou and endured the bleak winters, food shortages and continual, devastating intrusions of interlopers bent on exploiting the Arctic. In this seminal book, Mowat details a genocide wrought by misunderstanding and neglect. Debated long after its publication, this powerful story of the Ihalmiut continues to haunt the Canadian conscience.
People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory
by Brian M. FaganThis internationally renowned textbook provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from the earliest times through the earliest civilizations. Written in an accessible way, People of the Earth shows how today's diverse humanity developed biologically and culturally over millions of years against a background of constant climatic change.
People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory
by Brian M. Fagan Nadia DurraniPeople of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years ago. This is a global prehistory, which covers prehistoric times in every corner of the world, in a jargon-free style for newcomers to archaeology. Many world histories begin with the first civilizations. This book starts at the beginning of human history and summarizes the latest research into such major topics as human origins, the emergence and spread of modern humans, the first farming, and the origins of civilization. People of the Earth is unique in its even balance of the human past, its readily accessible style, and its flowing narrative that carries the reader through the long sweep of our past. The book is highly illustrated, and features boxes and sidebars describing key dating methods and important archaeological sites. This classic world prehistory sets the standard for books on the subject and is the most widely used prehistory textbook in the world. It is aimed at introductory students in archaeology and anthropology taking survey courses on the prehistoric past, as well as more advanced readers. It will also appeal to students of human responses to climatic and environmental change.