Publisher : Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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Publication year : 2006
Thematic : Biodiversity Information Management
Language : English
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Since time immemorial, humankind has changed landscapes in attempts to improve the amount, quality, and security of natural resources critical to its well being, such as food, freshwater, fiber, and medicinal products. Through the increased use of innovation, human populations have, slowly at first, and at increasingly rapid pace later on, increased its ability to derive resources from the environment, and expand its territory. Several authors have identified three different phases - the control of fire, domestication of biota, and fossil-fuel use - as being pivotal in enabling increased appropriation of natural resources (Goudsblom and De Vries 2004; Turner II and McCandless 2004).
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Keywords : botanical
Encoded by : Pauline Carmel Joy Eje
