Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions

Crabtree, Stefani A.; Kahn, Jennifer G.; Jackson, Rowan; Wood, Spencer A.; McKechnie, Iain; Verhagen, Philip; Earnshaw, Jacob; Dunne, Jennifer A.; Dugmore, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102597

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“…These birds were hunted for food but other roles of birds, as we see from ethnographic examples where people are better connected to the environment, would have been equally important. Crabtree et al (2023) have suggested that the closer a society is to other species in their environment the more likely they are aware of the impact of their actions on other species. They argue that, because of the migratory nature of many birds, past populations will have less knowledge of the ecological impact of their multispecies interactions with these animals.…”

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“…By the LPPNA phase, cultivation created new habitats suited to species with different ecological niches and there is an increase in other taxonomic groups. The taxonomic present seem to be an interplay of reductive homogenisation whereby human activity reduces the richness, abundance and evenness of ecological communities either intentionally or accidentally (Crabtree et al 2023) together with an increase in foraging opportunities for some of the less common species.…”

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Human-bird interactions in the Levant during the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene: Multi-scalar analysis of avifaunal remains

Yeomans,

Mazzucato

2023

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This paper describes analyses of avifauna from Levantine Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites at contrasting scales. Firstly, we present avian osteological data from a sequence of occupation at Shubayqa, in northeast Jordan, illustrating changing human-bird-environment interactions over 4000 years offering interpretations of environmental change on avifaunal communities and nature of multi-species relationships at this wetland environment. Secondly, we compare published avifaunal assemblages to investigate the nature of bird-human relationships across a broader temporal and geographical span. During the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene our species gradually transitioned to an agricultural mode of subsistence. Whilst explanations of long-term human behavioural dynamics are frequently sought, disparity between correlation and causation obscures interpretation of trajectories in the human past. People hunted birds for subsistence but extensive evidence for the symbolic importance of birds suggests complex relationships between species. Avifaunal evidence, therefore, presents insights into two commonly suggested primary causes for the shift from hunter-foragers to agriculturalists – resource pressure and symbolic expression. Here we argue that actions of humans gradually modified the landscape and ecological system but this was not a reactionary response to resource stress. Nevertheless, this resulted in the productivity of the landscape increasing and allowed further intensification. Feathers and talons of birds were used for millennia preceding the shift to agriculture and the increase in bird hunting towards the end of the Pleistocene cannot be explained by the increased role of birds in the symbolic realm.

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Section: Taxonomic Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%