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Palms, Pastures, and Swidden Fields: The Grounded Political Ecology of “Agro-Extractive/Shifting-cultivator Peasants” in Maranhão, Brazil
This article examines transformations associated with changes in resource use and land cover dynamics in the community of São Manoel, Maranhão state,...
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Four Millennia of Cultural History in Nigeria (ca. 2000 B.C.–A.D. 1900): Archaeological Perspectives
This essay is an analysis of archaeological contributions to the understanding of Nigeria's cultural history between ca. 2000 B.C. and A.D. 1900...
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In Situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation in the Swiss Inner Alpine Zone
This paper considers Swiss experiences of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation. The Swiss recognise the multifunctionality of agriculture,...
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Land Use and Cover Change as an Indicator of Transformation on Recently Redistributed Farms in Limpopo Province, South Africa
This paper assesses the impact of South Africa's land reform program on land use change in rural areas of Limpopo Province. Land use change was...
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Methodological Reflections on the Use of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science in Human Ecological Research
Environmental analysts increasingly utilize remote sensing (RS) and geographic information science (GIS) techniques to study the relationship between...
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The Modern World-Systemas environmental history? Ecology and the rise of capitalism
This article considers the emergence of world environmental history as a rapidly growing but undertheorized research field. Taking as its central...
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The Nature of Shifting Cultivation: Stories of Harmony, Degradation, and Redemption
Shifting cultivation is identified as a major cause of tropical deforestation. Sources that recount such impacts routinely employ an Eden-lost...
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Pearl Millet and Kintampo Subsistence
Subsistence practices of the Kintampo cultural complex of sub-Saharan West Africa are now known to have included pearl millet cultivation, in...
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Actors, options and the challenges of forest management in anglophone Cameroon
Natural resources, especially the forest provide a means of livelihood to rural communities in most develo** countries. Unfortunately these...
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Parent-offspring conflict and the cultural ecology of breast-feeding
Lactation constitutes a major focus for research in international health because of its dramatic impact on child survival; evolutionary biology has...
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Resisting Dams and ‘Development’: Contemporary Significance of the Campaign against the Narmada Projects in India
Studies on environmental campaigns in develo** countries tend to highlight their grassroots character and view them as producing visions of a...
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Sociopolitical Discontinuity in the Near East C. 2200 B.C.E.: Scenarios from Palestine and Egypt
Between about 2300 and 2000 B.C.E. there was widespread sociopolitical devolution in the Near East. Tell Leilan, the particular case in point, was...
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Towards sustainable agriculture in post-apartheid South Africa
This paper assesses the possibility of sustainable agriculture in South Africa in the context of recent policy initiatives. The new environmental...
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The relationship between indigenous pastoralist resource tenure and state tenure in Somalia
Indigenous resource tenure systems in Africa have evolved to meet the constraints and opportunities of often difficult biophysical environments,...
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The Relationship between Mobility Strategies and Site Structure
The spatial organization of hunter-gatherer sites has been the subject of numerous studies over the past 25 years (e.g., Yellen 1977; Binford 1978,...