Abstract
Having just taught conservation of natural resources to a small group of students over the summer, and just gearing up to teach it again in the fall, current environmental problems were foremost in my mind as I picked up Human Impact on Ancient Environments. Although my research background includes the Mayan culture area of MesoAmerica (via an interdisciplinary mix of geographers, archaeologists, and others) and I discuss their maladaptive environmental strategies in class, I offer them only briefly as an example of population growth and its relationship to environmental damage. My focus is on the present. In Human Impact Redman focuses on the past, but with the purpose of providing “an empirical basis for interpreting the past and to highlight the key relationships and processes involved in human-environment interactions” (195). The primary tool employed is the case study.
Recommended Citation
Lowry, Jr, James D.
(2003)
"Human Impact on Ancient Environments. By Charles L. Redman,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 45:
Iss.
2, Article 10.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol45/iss2/10