Contingency and Agency in the Mountain Landscapes of the Western Pyrenees: A Place-Based Approach to the Long Anthropocene
Autor: | David S. Leigh, Michael R. Coughlan, Ted L. Gragson |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Agency (philosophy) Western Pyrenees TJ807-830 Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources land-use change mountain agropastoralism Basque Anthropocene 0601 history and archaeology Land use land-use change and forestry GE1-350 Neolithic 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common 060101 anthropology historical ecology Land use Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Environmental resource management 06 humanities and the arts Environmental sciences Geography Sustainability Psychological resilience business Contingency Historical ecology |
Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 3882, p 3882 (2020) Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 9 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Popis: | Regional- and biome-scale paleoecological analyses and archaeological syntheses in the mountain landscapes of the western Pyrenees suggest that the Long Anthropocene began with agropastoral land use at the onset of the Neolithic. Historical and geographic analyses emphasize the marginality of the western Pyrenees and the role of enforced social norms exacted by intense solidarities of kin and neighbors in agropastoral production. Both are satisfying and simple narratives, yet neither offers a realistic framework for understanding complex processes or the contingency and behavioral variability of human agents in transforming a landscape. The Long Anthropocene in the western Pyrenees was a spatially and temporally heterogeneous and asynchronous process, and the evidence frequently departs from conventional narratives about human landscape degradation in this agropastoral situation. A complementary place-based strategy that draws on geoarchaeological, biophysical, and socio-ecological factors is used to examine human causality and environmental resilience and demonstrate their relationship with the sustainability of mountain landscapes of the western Pyrenees over medium to long time intervals. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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