Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Long-term demographic trends and spatio-temporal distribution of past human activity in Central Europe: Comparison of archaeological and palaeoecological proxies

J Kolář, M Macek, P Tkáč, D Novák… - Quaternary science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Estimating past population dynamics has become a major research topic for archaeology,
which uses several proxies for studying past demography. The Czech Republic represents a …

European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, map** and potentials

E Githumbi, R Fyfe, MJ Gaillard… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Quantitative reconstructions of past land-cover are necessary for research into the
processes involved in climate-human-land interactions. We present the first temporally …

Climate change and modernization drive structural realignments in European grain production

Z Pinke, B Decsi, A Jámbor, MK Kardos, Z Kern… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Charting the long-term trends in European wheat and maize yields and harvested areas and
the relation of yields to climatic and economic drivers, two profound spatial processes …

Historical land use reconstruction for South Asia: Current understanding, challenges, and solutions

S Li, F He, X Liu, L Hua - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
To deal with global warming and biodiversity loss, historical land use in South Asia received
wide attention because of its huge population and rich biodiversity. We reviewed …

Exploring the Interface Between Planetary Boundaries and Palaeoecology

L Gillson, A Seddon, O Mottl, K Zhang… - Global Change …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The concepts of planetary boundaries are influential in the sustainability literature and assist
in delineating the 'safe operating spaces' beyond which critical Earth system processes …

Develo** Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée

F Silva, F Coward, K Davies, S Elliott, E Jenkins… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although
our local impact on the evolution of these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively …

[HTML][HTML] More than agriculture: Analysing time-cumulative human impact on European land-cover of second half of the holocene

A Zapolska, MA Serge, F Mazier, A Quiquet… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Assessment of past anthropogenic modifications of land-cover dynamics is key to
understanding the human role in the Earth system. Recent advances in …

Rethinking the landscape: Emerging approaches to archaeological remote sensing

J Casana - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
An emerging arena of archaeological research is beginning to deploy remote sensing
technologies—including aerial and satellite imagery, digital topographic data, and drone …

Climate change and early urbanism in Southwest Asia: A review

D Lawrence, G Philip… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (c. 6500–4000 BP), the Fertile
Crescent in Southwest Asia saw the earliest development of cities anywhere in the world …