“Agricultural Sustainability in the Semi-Arid Near East”
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
Kluiving and Hamel explore why the Anthropocene emerged. They suggest that an analysis of global changes in human niche construction using geoarchaeological data offers new perspectives on the causes and effects of the Anthropocene.
This area attracted an exodus of youthful creative urban dwellers resettling the land with aims of self-sufficiency and communal living.
In this article, environmentalist Hayal Desta considers the impact of agrarian practices and climate change on Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.
This volume explores some of the diverse niches created by humans in different times and places. The essays span the globe, from Texas to China, from Scandinavia to Papua New Guinea, exploring agricultural spaces and indoor biomes, human aesthetics, and Anthropocentric perspectives.