Table of Contents

Part 1 Overview
Quarrying yams: perspectives from the edge
Contingent constructions - cultural landscapes and environmental change
Part 2 Methodological and Conceptual Tools from the Sciences
Transformed landscapes - human impacts and the palaeoecological record
The question of naturalness - environmental change in ecology and palaeoecology
Part 3 Methodological and Conceptual Tools from the Humanities
The social construction of nature and landscape
The production of knowledge and its policy implications
Part 4 Contemporary Issues and the Long Term Perspective
Protecting places
Restored, (p)reserved and created landscapes
Humanised landscapes - a place for people?
Identity, heritage and tourism.

Reviews

Head boldly explores recursive terrain by bringing together environmental-change science with cultural constructions of nature. Head's volume made clear to me just how much we need innovative textbooks, both to rattle our complacency and to attract the best students
Karl W. Butzer, Department of Geography, Universit