Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts, and woodland management: Revisiting Pjórsárdalur, the "Pompeii of Iceland"

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Dugmore, Andrew J ^a   Church, Mike J ^b   Mairs, Kerry Anne ^a   McGovern, Thomas H ^c   Perdikaris, Sophia ^d   Vésteinsson, Orri ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND MANAGEMENT; MEDIEVAL; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WOODLAND;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 34548211772     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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