Combustion records in sediments and environmental change in the Holocene in Arctic Canada
by
Nancy C. Weeks Doubleday
Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6

Combustion processes are fundamental to most development processes, whether tropical agriculture, industrial manufacturing, military intervention or human activity at the level of the household. Sedimentary records of combustion in the Holocene provide useful analogues for development through time and have also been used to re-construct relationships between development activities and environmental effects at a range of sites and scales. A re-examination of the applications of these combustion studies in the context of catastrophic change and environmental recovery suggests a range of new perspectives and possible applications to contemporary environmental problems.

Date received: April 15, 2002