"Multidisciplinary in its methodology and provocative in its argumentation, this book demonstrates that human communities in the ancient past were inextricably intertwined with the world around them, and that the actions they took simultaneously responded to and shaped the risks--both hazardous and favorable--that they perceived"--Publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cultures of risk
Seismicity and society
Weathering the weather
Living with water
Writing riskscapes.
ISBN
9781512827392 (hardcover)
1512827398 (hardcover)
LCCN
2024033295
OCLC
1433200124
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