GE CLST M1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tabula Rasa, Historical Ecology, Environmental History
1 Feb 2017
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Lecture 10: indigenous knowledge and tropical sustainability prof. hack. Soil limitation hypothesis: soils too poor to support advanced societies so. Both conservationists and developers like this ahistorical view (primeval place, tabula rasa) Ripe for reinscription (redesigning the history through the idea of it being a space for modern development or for conservation) as modernity and modernist development. Defore emissions (= to all transport sector) ~ but is the untrammeled empty amazon really the best understanding?~ Environmental history posits otherwise because of techniques. Center plaza (urbanism), constellation and greenbelts around them. Indigenous knowledge systems have a lot of knowledge on sustainable sources. If soils were so crappy how could you get surplus for big populations; Temp zone: terraces, irrigation overcome natural site limitations and generate high productive landscapes; Ade (terra preta and terra mulata does the same) Anthropogenic intervention in landscapes can change substrates enough so that they can become more productive.
