Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- THE EAGLE HILL MEETING, OCTOBER 2009 -- THE GLOBAL HUMAN ECODYNAMICS ALLIANCE (GHEA) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND THANKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Abstracts -- Chapter 1 HAZARDS, IMPACTS, AND RESILIENCE AMONG HUNTER-GATHERERS OF THE KURIL ISLANDS -- Chapter 2 RESPONSES TO EXPLOSIVE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS BY SMALL TO COMPLEX SOCIETIES IN ANCIENT MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA -- Chapter 3 BLACK SUN, HIGH FLAME, AND FLOOD: VOLCANIC HAZARDS IN ICELAND -- Chapter 4 FAIL TO PREPARE, THEN PREPARE TO FAIL: RETHINKING THREAT, VULNERABILITY, AND MITIGATION IN THE PRECOLUMBIAN CARIBBEAN -- Chapter 5 COLLATION, CORRELATION, AND CAUSATION IN THE PREHISTORY OF COASTAL PERU -- Chapter 6 SILENT HAZARDS, INVISIBLE RISKS: PREHISPANIC EROSION IN THE TEOTIHUACAN VALLEY, CENTRAL MEXICO -- Chapter 7 DOMINATION AND RESILIENCE IN BRONZE AGE MESOPOTAMIA -- Chapter 8 LONG-TERM VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE: THREE EXAMPLES FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES AND NORTHERN MEXICO -- Chapter 9 SOCIAL EVOLUTION, HAZARDS, AND RESILIENCE: SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- Chapter 10 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, RESILIENCE, AND SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES -- INTRODUCTION Learning to Live with the Dangers of Sudden Environmental Change -- HAZARD-DISASTER RESEARCH -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO DISASTER STUDIES -- LIVING WITH THE DANGERS OF SUDDEN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-ORIGINS OF THIS BOOK -- CONTRIBUTIONS TO HAZARD-DISASTER RESEARCH IN THIS BOOK -- APPLIED ARCHAEOLOGY: HOW RESEARCH CAN AMELIORATE RISK -- Settlement Locations -- Household Architecture -- Food Procurement Strategies -- Reciprocal Social Networks -- Education -- Disaster Management Planning -- LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- ONE Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers of the Kuril Islands.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CATASTROPHIC EVENTS IN THE HUNTER-GATHERER CONTEXT -- THE KURIL ISLANDS -- KURIL ISLAND ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORY -- KEY HAZARDS, PAST IMPACTS, AND HUMAN RESPONSES -- Hazard 1: Volcanic Eruptions -- Hazard 2: Earthquakes and Tsunamis -- Hazard 3: Weather and Climate Change -- Hazard 4: Socioeconomic Isolation and Integration -- RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- TWO Responses to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions by Small to Complex Societies in Ancient Mexico and Central America -- SCALED VULNERABILITIES -- Societal Complexity/Political Organization -- Societal Conflict -- Demography and Mobility -- Economy and Adaptation -- Differential Impacts of Disasters: Of Course There Were Losers, but There Were Also Winners -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- THREE Black Sun, High Flame, and Flood: Volcanic Hazards in Iceland -- VOLCANIC HAZARDS -- TEPHROCHRONOLOGY: DATING PAST HAZARDS THROUGH THE USE OF VOLCANIC ASH LAYERS -- INDIRECT HAZARDS FROM VOLCANIC ACTIVITY -- USING THE PAST TO IDENTIFY FUTURE HAZARDS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FOUR Fail to Prepare, Then Prepare to Fail: Rethinking Threat, Vulnerability, and Mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean -- INTRODUCTION AND KEY CHALLENGES -- ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATIC CONTEXT -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT -- KEY HAZARDS AND PAST IMPACTS -- Relative Sea Level Rise -- Precipitation -- Hurricanes -- HUMAN MITIGATION AND RESILIENCE -- Household Architecture -- Settlement Location -- Food Procurement Strategies and Interaction Networks -- SUMMARY AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- FIVE Collation, Correlation, and Causation in the Prehistory of Coastal Peru -- THE CENTRAL ANDEAN COAST -- CHALLENGES -- SCALES -- CONTRIBUTIONS -- Key Hazards -- Past Impacts -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

SIX Silent Hazards, Invisible Risks: Prehispanic Erosion in the Teotihuacan Valley, Central Mexico -- THE TEOTIHUACAN REGION -- ADAPTIVE CYCLES AND HUMAN ECODYNAMICS AT TEOTIHUACAN -- CHALLENGES -- HAZARDS -- EVIDENCE FOR DEFORESTATION, EROSION, AND FLOODS -- URBAN EXPANSION AND VULNERABILITIES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION -- CLIMATE CHANGE -- MITIGATION -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SEVEN Domination and Resilience in Bronze Age Mesopotamia -- BRONZE AGE MESOPOTAMIA -- TYPES OF EVIDENCE -- HAZARDS AND HAZARD MANAGEMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA -- Drought -- Severe Winters -- Floods -- River Channel Shift -- Salinization -- Soil Degradation -- Pests -- RESILIENCE -- INSTITUTIONAL POWER, RESILIENCE, AND COLLAPSE -- Late Third Millennium BC -- End of the Old Babylonian Period -- End of the Late Bronze Age -- CONCLUSION: INSTITUTIONAL(IZED) RESILIENCE IN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- EIGHT Long-Term Vulnerability and Resilience: Three Examples from Archaeological Study in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico -- CHALLENGES: DEFINING AND MEASURING RESILIENCE, VULNERABILITY, AND HAZARD -- ADVANTAGES OF A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE -- CONTRIBUTION 1: DIVERSIFYING MAIZE-BASED SUBSISTENCE -- CONTRIBUTION 2: THE ROLE OF IRRIGATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CONDITIONS -- CONTRIBUTION 3: RIGIDITY TRAPS IN SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -- FUTURE RESEARCH, LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT -- REFERENCES -- NINE Social Evolution, Hazards, and Resilience: Some Concluding Thoughts -- THAT OLD-TIME CULTURAL EVOLUTION -- SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES -- SOCIAL EVOLUTION, HAZARDS, AND RESILIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- TEN Global Environmental Change, Resilience, and Sustainable Outcomes -- REFERENCES CITED -- Contributors -- Index -- Footnotes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 8.