How can societies manage wealth and power when natural resources are scarce or unpredictable? In such conditions, economic defensibility theory predicts higher sustainability in large, mobile human groups. Analyzing housing and food storage infrastructures in archaeological sites located in the arid Andean highlands reveals a family-based society adaptively facing an unstable, worsening climate during the 13-15th centuries. By sharing local knowledge, labor, and natural resources, this society succeeded both in limiting power and wealth concentration, and in sustainably producing food surpluses to be exchanged with neighboring populations. Enriching the economic defensibility theory, we propose a model where a compromise between collective ...
Spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall patterns presented food production challenges to sma...
Climate change is one of the major contributing factors to degradation of ecological services, and t...
Dealing with complex challenges worldwide regarding sustainable development and environmental manage...
How can societies manage wealth and power when natural resources are scarce or unpredictable? In suc...
International audienceThe scarcity or unpredictability of natural resources is a threat to cooperati...
This paper examines household adaptive capacity to deal with climatic change among the Tsimane', an ...
We study the influence that resource availability has on cooperation in the context of hunter-gather...
In spite of a long settlement history of the tropical Andes, rural farming communities have always b...
Climate change scenarios predict impacts in Bolivia that include longer dry seasons and more frequen...
In the Colombian Andes, peasants have co-evolved with their environment for centuries, but it is unc...
Climate change affects directly the food system, reducing food availability and increasing access in...
The productivity decline over the past century of the Sierra Madre of western Chihuahua, Mexico has ...
Human-triggered climate change is widely acknowledged as a salient challenge to societal sustainabil...
Capitulo 10International audienceThe current production of quinoa for export in the southern highlan...
Rainfall variability and related hydrological disasters are serious threats to agricultural producti...
Spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall patterns presented food production challenges to sma...
Climate change is one of the major contributing factors to degradation of ecological services, and t...
Dealing with complex challenges worldwide regarding sustainable development and environmental manage...
How can societies manage wealth and power when natural resources are scarce or unpredictable? In suc...
International audienceThe scarcity or unpredictability of natural resources is a threat to cooperati...
This paper examines household adaptive capacity to deal with climatic change among the Tsimane', an ...
We study the influence that resource availability has on cooperation in the context of hunter-gather...
In spite of a long settlement history of the tropical Andes, rural farming communities have always b...
Climate change scenarios predict impacts in Bolivia that include longer dry seasons and more frequen...
In the Colombian Andes, peasants have co-evolved with their environment for centuries, but it is unc...
Climate change affects directly the food system, reducing food availability and increasing access in...
The productivity decline over the past century of the Sierra Madre of western Chihuahua, Mexico has ...
Human-triggered climate change is widely acknowledged as a salient challenge to societal sustainabil...
Capitulo 10International audienceThe current production of quinoa for export in the southern highlan...
Rainfall variability and related hydrological disasters are serious threats to agricultural producti...
Spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall patterns presented food production challenges to sma...
Climate change is one of the major contributing factors to degradation of ecological services, and t...
Dealing with complex challenges worldwide regarding sustainable development and environmental manage...