Modeling the tropical wetland landscape and adaptations

Alfred Siemens ()

Agriculture and Human Values, 2004, vol. 21, issue 2, 243-254

Abstract: Prolonged investigations of past and present use of wetland margins in various lowlands within Latin America have yielded a wealth of detail. It has become necessary to search out regularities in the natural environmental context and the human adaptations, all of which can be done advantageously in the context of the concept of landscape. Such a move in the direction of theory is attempted here by means of a heuristic model and an exploration of variations in its expression. The discussion of seasonal as well as longer termed change in the natural environment and human adaptation is easily accomodated. The essay includes a brief consideration of some of the recent directions in the investigation of the tropical wetland landscape. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

Keywords: Contemporary; Landscape; Model; Prehispanic; Wetland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1023/B:AHUM.0000029407.93349.24

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