Traditional fire-use, landscape transition, and the legacies of social theory past

Ambio

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 705-717

  Coughlan, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic landscape transition; Historical ecology; Human ecology; Paleofire; Pyrogeography; Traditional fire use

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FIRE HISTORY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 84947486564     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: 16547209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-015-0643-y     Document Type: Review

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