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Special Issue on Cultural and Political Ecology - Dale Lightfoot and Kent Mathewson, Guest Editors

Editors' Introduction

Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast: A Reconsideration—Douglas Deur

Common Field Agriculture as a Cultural Landscape of Latin America: Development and History in the Geographical Customs of Resource Use—Karl Zimmerer

Which Way to Till This Field: The Cultural Selection of Surface Form in the Rise and Fall of Cultivation Ridges in Northwestern Europe—Michael Myers

The “Degraded” Tapia Woodlands of Highland Madagascar: Rural Economy, Fire Ecology, and Forest Conservation—Christian Kull

Fern Roots and Fire: Village Subsistence, Landscape Change, and Nature Conservation in China's Southeast Uplands—Christopher Coggins

Intensive Agricultural Landscapes of Oceania—Robert Kuhlken

Book Reviews