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This study addresses how hunter-gatherers provision themselves when they have a large, dense population and are faced with constraints like small territories and reduced mobility. These conditions were present in the Sacramento Valley, California at the end of the Late Period (1…

We use household-level panel data to estimate how population density impacts agricultural intensification and farm income in Ethiopia. We hypothesize that increases in population density affect agricultural intensification and farm income directly through information flows, inst…

Today's growing concern about global environmental consequences of cumulative land-cover change, particularly agricultural intensification and land degradation, challenges geographers to address the complexities of local scale land-use systems. This dissertation examines how gen…