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Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh: The Maya forest garden: eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands

Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh: The Maya forest garden: eight millennia of sustainable cultivation... Agric Hum Values (2018) 35:739–740 DOI 10.1007/s10460-017-9839-z Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh: The Maya forest garden: eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands Left Coast Press, Inc., California, 2015, 260 pp, ISBN 978-1-61132-997-1 S. Suresh Ramanan   Accepted: 26 October 2017 / Published online: 28 October 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2017 Great civilizations such as the Egyptian and the Indus val- The authors’ hypothesis for the Mayans’ decline also ley civilizations do have reasons behind their decline. The has some critics. Their critiques are addressed in the first Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica is a famous civilization chapter of the book. Published by Left Coast Press under which also declined with time. Many theories have been the series—New Frontiers in Historical Ecology, this book proposed for its decline. Among many theories, one theory begins with an introduction, followed by six chapters and states that extensive deforestation carried out to promote an appendix. The appendix lists the plants and trees that are agriculture to fulfill the needs of the rising Mayan popu- cultivated in the milpa. The authors have incorporated the lation, led to the deterioration and decline of the civiliza- Latin binomials, English, Spanish as well as Mayan names http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh: The Maya forest garden: eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 35 (3) – Oct 28, 2017

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2017 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/s10460-017-9839-z
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Agric Hum Values (2018) 35:739–740 DOI 10.1007/s10460-017-9839-z Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh: The Maya forest garden: eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands Left Coast Press, Inc., California, 2015, 260 pp, ISBN 978-1-61132-997-1 S. Suresh Ramanan   Accepted: 26 October 2017 / Published online: 28 October 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2017 Great civilizations such as the Egyptian and the Indus val- The authors’ hypothesis for the Mayans’ decline also ley civilizations do have reasons behind their decline. The has some critics. Their critiques are addressed in the first Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica is a famous civilization chapter of the book. Published by Left Coast Press under which also declined with time. Many theories have been the series—New Frontiers in Historical Ecology, this book proposed for its decline. Among many theories, one theory begins with an introduction, followed by six chapters and states that extensive deforestation carried out to promote an appendix. The appendix lists the plants and trees that are agriculture to fulfill the needs of the rising Mayan popu- cultivated in the milpa. The authors have incorporated the lation, led to the deterioration and decline of the civiliza- Latin binomials, English, Spanish as well as Mayan names

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Published: Oct 28, 2017

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