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| | Map Geographical location of case studies | xv |
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| | 1.1 A landscape transformed by human actions, Madeira Island | 2 |
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| | 2.1 An example of one of many species adapted to the East African dry forest ecosystem | 15 |
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| | 2.2 An elder in the forest near Manyallaluk, which means “Frog Dreaming Place” in Northern Territory, Australia | 20 |
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| | 2.3 The Hopi town of Moenkopi in Arizona | 23 |
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| | 3.1 The wall of the ancient city of Uruk in Sumeria | 35 |
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| | 3.2 Salinization in the Fayum Oasis, Egypt | 41 |
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| | 3.3 The Temple of the Giant Jaguar (Temple I) rises above the plaza in the ancient Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala | 43 |
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| | 4.1 The Parthenon and other buildings in Athens, Greece, crown the Acropolis | 61 |
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| | 4.2 An Orthodox church in Messenia, Greece | 63 |
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| | 4.3 The historic city of Xian | 67 |
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| | 4.4 The Tiber River served as water supply and means of transportation for the imperial city of Rome | 75 |
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| | 4.5 Trajan’s Column, in the Forum of Trajan, Rome | 77 |
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| | 5.1 The city hall (Palazzo Vecchio) and cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence | 88 |
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| | 5.2 Aerial view of Ra’iatea, a high island in the Society Islands of Polynesia | 96 |
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| | 5.3 Breadfruit, a food plant introduced to many of the Pacific islands by the Polynesians | 97 |
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| | 5.4 View of the lagoon and barrier reef from the high island of Bora Bora in the Society Islands | 98 |
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| | 5.5 Machu Picchu, a city of the Incas in the Andes Mountains east of Cuzco, Peru | 100 |
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| | 6.1 Statue of Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain, now located at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City | 114 |
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| | 6.2 The Tower Bridge over the Thames River, in London, built in 1886-94 | 121 |
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| | 6.3 A giant tortoise at the Charles Darwin Research Center on the Galápagos Islands | 128 |
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Publication information:
Book title: An Environmental History of the World:Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life.
Contributors: J. Donald Hughes - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2001.
Page number: ix.
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