Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ455023
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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The Columbian Encounter and Land-Use Change.
Turner, B. L. II, Butzer, Karl W.
Environment, v34 n8 p16-20,37-44 Oct 1992
Discusses land use patterns in fifteenth-century Europe and in the Americas and the mutual influence (initiated by Columbus's arrival in the Americas) that led to land use change. Presents a historical perspective and categorization of contemporary global land use changes for the purpose of highlighting associations between past and present global change. (73 references) (MCO)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Environmental Education, European History, History, Land Settlement, Land Use, Natural Resources, Use Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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