The Resilience and Vulnerability of Ancient Landscapes: Transforming Maya Archaeology through IHOPE

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Editors: Chase, Arlen F. and Scarborough, Vernon L.

Publisher: American Anthropological Association

Pub Date: 2014

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks.  Lots of edge and corner wear.  Upper front cover edge worn.  Lower front cover corner has two bends, one vertical, one horizontal.  Spine head worn.  Lower rear cover corner has several bends, the largest at approx. 3″.   2 bumps on upper rear cover edge, one large bump on bootm rear cover edge, with approx. 1/4″ chip.  It’s been handled and put away badly.

Notes: Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 24.  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.  ‘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.” (From the Foreword)  Learning FOR the future, rather than learning FROM the past.  What do we have now that we want to keep (food, clean water, etc.) and what do we want to get rid of (pollution e.g.) when we talk about moving into the future?

“A change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all”
The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”