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Reconstructing Ancient Hohokam Irrigation Systems in the Middle Gila River Valley, Arizona, United States of America. [PDF]
Hum Ecol Interdiscip J, 2018 We explore the concept of scales to examine emerging irrigation realities, i.e., connecting more agents within larger spaces - relates to the complexity of irrigation systems.
Tianduowa Z, Woodson KC, Ertsen MW.
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Ecology and Society, 2010 What relationships can be understood between resilience and vulnerability in social-ecological systems? In particular, what vulnerabilities are exacerbated or ameliorated by different sets of social practices associated with water management?
Margaret C. Nelson +3 more
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An Aridamerican model for agriculture in a hotter, water scarce world
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 2, Issue 6, Page 627-639, November 2020., 2020 Climate change is dramatically restructuring agriculture and damaging crops, food security, and human health, especially in deserts. To radically redesign food systems to buffer against climatic disruptions, we focus on agroecological function, human health, and community well‐being.
Gary Paul Nabhan +13 more
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The Hohokam People Project: Learning Through Windows and Mirrors in a Cross-Cultural Study
WOW Stories, 2021 The Hohokam People Project began when students in the playground began digging waterways for fun, which became a learning opportunity about the Hohokam people.
Meghann Kjolsrud
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The Marana Community in the Hohokam World
, 2022 This account of Classic Period settlement in the Tucson Basin between A.D. 1100 and 1300 is the first comprehensive description of the organization of territory, subsistence, and society in a Hohokam community of an outlying region.
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Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 Researchers of pre-colonial Mexico cultures are familiar with Mesoamerican Mayan civilization, the Aztecs, the Olmecs, etc. However, on the Northern outskirts of ancient Mexico developed traditions that were associated with the world of Indians of the ...
Valentina Baglay
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Resilience of Past Landscapes: Resilience Theory, Society, and the Longue Durée
Ecology and Society, 2003 Resilience theory is an expanding body of ideas that attempts to provide explanations for the source and role of change in adaptive systems, particularly the kinds of change that are transforming. Scholars from various disciplines have contributed to the
Charles L. Redman, Ann P. Kinzig
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The drop that makes a vase overflow: Understanding Maya society through daily water management
WIREs Water, Volume 5, Issue 3, May/June 2018., 2018 Modeling Maya water flows in detail Water is an important key to understand Maya society, especially water availability within a context of climatic changes. Increasing drought would have pushed the Maya water systems into collapse. This paper studies the Maya water systems from an action‐oriented perspective, in order to understand what challenges the
Maurits W. Ertsen, Kyra Wouters
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Progress in socio‐hydrology: a meta‐analysis of challenges and opportunities
WIREs Water, Volume 4, Issue 4, July/August 2017., 2017 The 3 sub‐disciplines of socio‐hydrology enables the method of scientific inquiry to interpret phenomena that emerge from the dynamics of diverse coupled human‐water systems. Socio‐hydrology was introduced 4 years ago into the scientific lexicon, and elicited several reactions about the meaning and originality of the concept.
Saket Pande, Murugesu Sivapalan
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Hydropedological Assessments of Parcel‐Level Infiltration in an Arid Urban Ecosystem
Soil Science Society of America Journal, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 398-406, March-April 2015., 2015 Soil morphology and correspondent hydrologic data can contribute to qualifying and quantifying urban soil suitability and capacity to cycle stormwater runoff. We put particular emphasis on the possibility that residential parcels may manage their own stormwater on pervious yard areas.
William D. Shuster +4 more
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