T.G.H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter & Thomas W. Hoekstra. Supply-side sustainability.

T.G.H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter & Thomas W. Hoekstra. Supply-side sustainability. T.G.H. ALLEN, JOSEPH A. TAINTER & THOMAS W. HOEKSTRA.Supply-side sustainability. xvii+459 pages, 89 figures. 2003. New York New York, state, United StatesNew York,Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (NY): Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is an academic press based in New York City and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by James D. Jordan (2004-present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, ; 0-231-10586-X hardback 49.50 [poundssterling], 0-231-10587-8 paperback 24.50 [pounds sterling]. CHARLES L. REDMAN. Human impact on ancient environments, xiv+241pages, 55 figures, 1 table. 1999. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. Press; 0-8165-1962-5 hardback $45 & 0-8165-1963-3 paperback $22.95. * In Supply-side, two botanists and an archaeologist (TAINTER) havecreated a rich, 'systematic' review of causes of andconditions for ecological and social complexity, ranging over globalphysical and cultural ecology, studies of stability in ancient andMedieval Babylonia; the fall of the Roman Empire (through excessiveautonomy of its parts, they explain), the survival of Byzantium (bydint, they consider, of apt economic and political adjustments--albeitamidst social collapse perhaps not fully acknowledged here; cp. HALDONin 'Greeks ...', below), Native North American North Americannamed after North America.North American blastomycosissee North American blastomycosis.North American cattle ticksee boophilusannulatus. history andarchaeology, and more. Much of the illustrative material in this wellwritten and compelling book is drawn from Britain past and present. Toclarify the 'problem solving' that, according to these authors(and their ilk), civilisations must tackle, distinctions are drawnbetween complex systems and complicated systems and between'tangibly human' goals and 'the true invisible hand (pp.414-5). Ironies of rationality loom in Prof. REDMAN'S study too (ofthe same ilk but not cited by ALLEN et al.). 'No domain of enquiryis more appropriate for the archaeologist nor more pressing forcontemporary society', he asserts (p. 6), than environmental andtechnological sustainability. Tracing history from the Pleistocene to'The growth of world urbanism', Human impact draws on hisbroad familiarity with the archaeology of the Mediterranean, Middle Eastand Americas. See too DHAVALIKAR in 'South Asia', below.