1st Edition

Time Resources, Society and Ecology On the Capacity for Human Interaction in Space and Time

By Tommy Carlstein Copyright 1982
460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1982, Time Resources, Society and Ecology examines and seeks to examine the time dimension in terms of the ecology, technology, social organization and spatial structure of the human habitat. Approaches to time resources – sociological time-budget studies, anthropological activity analysis, and economic analysis of money allocation – have been limited by their sectoral... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Ecotechnology, Carrying Capacity, and Time-Space Resources

2. Life Paths and Living Possibility Boundaries: Elements of the Hägerstrand Time-Geographical Model

3. Hunting-Gathering

4. Nomadic Pastoralism

5. Shifting Cultivation

6. Short Fallow Cultivation: Reinterpreting the Structure of Local and Regional Intensification

7. Irrigation Agriculture

8. Time Allocation and the Carrying Capacity of a Population Time-Budget

9. Time Resources in Preindustrial Societies

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Tommy Carlstein