Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Historical Ecology


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

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Description
This wikiproject is intended to enhance and build upon our collective understanding of historical ecology both on a global and local scale by improving the quality and quantity of wikipedia articles pertaining to historical ecology. We hope to develop articles that focus on specific regions by encouraging project members and the public to study and write articles on the history of their environments and the history of human interaction with these environments. Over time we hope that this wikiproject will lead to bioregion-specific information over a wide range of ecosystems allowing people access to information that will allow a greater understanding of the historical interactions of people and their regional environments. With an improved and more accurate understanding of historical ecology, we hope that greater strides can be made in the execution of permaculture and other sustainable projects. We recognize the importance of historical ecology in education, especially in grades K-12, and a page devoted to historical ecology educational techniques and lesson plans will therefore be an important part of this project.

Annadestinmccown (talk) 20:07, 6 December 2010 (UTC) Annadestinmccown (talk) 02:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Related Wikiprojects
Annadestinmccown (talk) 23:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikiproject Environment
 * Wikiproject History
 * Wikiproject Ecology
 * Wikiproject Ecoregions
 * Wikiproject Anthropology
 * Wikiproject Sociology
 * Wikiproject Agriculture

Related Categories
Annadestinmccown (talk) 18:28, 6 December 2010 (UTC) Annadestinmccown (talk) 19:48, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Cultural Ecology
 * Ecological Anthropology
 * Environmental Sociology
 * Agroecology
 * Ecology of Contexts
 * Ethnoarchaeology
 * Ethnomedicine
 * Ethnopharmacy
 * Human Ecology
 * Roy Rappaport
 * Leslie White
 * Eric Wolf
 * Paleoethnobotany
 * Zooarchaeology
 * Archaeology
 * Ethnoentomology
 * Soil biology
 * Ethnoherpetology
 * Ethnolichenology
 * Ethnomycology
 * Ethnoornithology
 * Environmental planning
 * Natural resource management
 * Conservation movement
 * Biome
 * Ecosystems
 * Environmental movement
 * Natural disasters
 * Anthropogenic fire
 * Invasive species
 * Non-indigenous species
 * Endemic Species
 * Lifeway
 * Cultural identity
 * Identity politics
 * Social solidarity
 * Kinship
 * Demography
 * Population
 * Biodiversity
 * Biogeochemical
 * Systems ecology
 * General systems theory
 * Philosophy of science
 * Complex system
 * Climate
 * Troposphere
 * Meteorology
 * Climatology
 * Paleoclimatology
 * Paleothermometry
 * Dendroclimatology
 * Temperature record of the past 1000 years
 * Global warming
 * Extinction risk from climate change
 * Table of historic and prehistoric climate indicators
 * Retreat of glaciers since 1850
 * Global cooling
 * Earth's atmosphere
 * Hydrostatic equilibrium
 * History of agriculture
 * Water pollution
 * Biocoenosis
 * Biotope
 * Ecological land classification
 * Microclimate
 * Urban heat island
 * Permaculture
 * Deep Ecology
 * Green movement
 * Environmentalism
 * Nature conservation
 * Conservation biology
 * Environmental stress
 * Natural resource
 * Intertidal ecology
 * Habitat conservation
 * Conservation-restoration
 * Sociocultural evolution
 * The Venus Project

Goals
The primary goal of this proposed wikiproject is to add sections on historical ecology to existing pages for counties in the U.S. For example, since we are from Jefferson County, AL, we are working on a section on the historical ecology of Jefferson County. Such information is as vital to understanding the history of a place as the history of interactions among human groups. Such information can also help citizens in particular places make better decisions regarding environmental management as we begin to deal with the consequences of climate change. Eventually, we hope that this project would expand beyond the U.S. to include regions from all over the world. Until then, we hope to accomplish the following:


 * To enhance the quality of existing articles pertaining to historical ecology.
 * To increase the quantity of information pertaining to historical ecology - especially for particular places or counties - and to do so with well-referenced, neutral, and concisely written sections
 * To recruit editors interested in pursuing the goals of this project

Annadestinmccown (talk) 23:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC) Annadestinmccown (talk) 20:18, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

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Discussion

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.