Intensive Wetland Agriculture in Mesoamerica: Space, Time, and Form

Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture

The ancient lowland Maya have been traditionally portrayed as swidden (shifting cultivation) agriculturalists (1). The persistence of the swidden concept has inhibited field inquiry of past modes of lowland subsistence, often preserving what may be an unfounded bias concerning the cultivation techniques employed by the Maya. Moreover, the absence of adequate subsistence research has, in effect,...

Emergy Evaluation of Italian Agriculture Across Space and Time Scales

This paper evaluates in emergy terms the resource use and environmental performance of the Italian agricultural sector across levels, from local scale (olive, lemon and grape farms), through regional scale (Campania region) up to the national scale (whole Italy). The evolution over time (from 1985 to 2006) is also investigated to take into account how the demand for environmental support change...

REMEDIAL AGRICULTURE: RECONCILING ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION AND AGRICULTURE IN THE DESIGN OF A WETLAND COMPLEX by

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe 1 Running head : Intensive agriculture and soil biodiversity

Hypersurfaces with Constant Mean Curvature in a Lorentzian Space Form