Resilience lost: Intersecting land use and landscape dynamics in the prehistoric southwestern United States

Ecology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Peeples, Matthew A ^a   Barton, C Michael ^a   Schmich, Steven ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive cycle; Agriculture; Archaeology; Human environmental impacts; Land use; Landscape dynamics; Resilience theory; Southwestern United States

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846083166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-01868-110222     Document Type: Article

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