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Table of contents(15 chapters)
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Introduction: An Easter Island Experience—How it all Started
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Documenting the World Heritage Significance of Easter Island
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EcologIcal Considerations and Restoration/Protection Efforts of Natural and Cultural Resources
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Technological Applications to Protect Biological and Cultural Artifacts
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Addendum
About this book
Easter Island, a World Heritage Site is still, after over 50 years since Thor Heyerdahl's work on the island, a fascinating area to explore and learn about a culture that has only remnants remaining, while documenting a marine ecology still mostly unknown.
Easter Island: Scientific Exploration into the World's Environmental Problems in Microcosm presents the research results from three years of interdisciplinary expeditions to Easter Island. The primary objectives were to investigate the effects of human population growth on the ecology of the island and to discover whether any dramatic climatic changes such as a prolonged El Niño could have disrupted the island's fragile ecosystem. The interdisciplinary scientific team were mainly researching the paleontology, archaeology, climatology, and geophysics of the island. This book now brings together the results of the three expeditions, identifies new areas of research, and hopefully will continue to inspire aspiring scientists to revisit this amazing island to explore and demystify this timeless enigma of human history.
Editors and Affiliations
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Science Museum of Long Island, Plandome, USA
John Loret
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Dowling College, Oakdale, USA
John T. Tanacredi
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American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
John T. Tanacredi
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Easter Island
Book Subtitle: Scientific Exploration into the World’s Environmental Problems in Microcosm
Editors: John Loret, John T. Tanacredi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47494-1Published: 31 August 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4956-3Published: 17 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0183-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 240
Topics: Pollution, general, Climate Change, Nature Conservation, Oceanography, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Anthropology