Time Resources, Society and Ecology: On the Capacity for Human Interaction in Space and Time

ISBN-13: 9780367349691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 456 str.

Tommy Carlstein

Opis

Originally published in 1982, Time Resources, Society and Ecology examines and seeks to examine the time dimension in terms of the ecology, technology, social organization and spatial structure of the human habitat.

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  1. Ecotechnology, Carrying Capacity, and Time-Space Resources  2. Life Paths and Living Possibility Boundaries: Elements of the Hägerstrand Time-Geographical Model  3. Hunting-Gathering  4. Nomadic Pastoralism  5. Shifting Cultivation  6. Short Fallow Cultivation: Reinterpreting the Structure of Local and Regional Intensification  7. Irrigation Agriculture  8. Time Allocation and the Carrying Capacity of a Population Time-Budget  9. Time Resources in Preindustrial Societies  Afterword  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Tommy Carlstein