Culture and the Changing Environment : : Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective / / ed. by Michael J. Casimir.
Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and huma...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (410 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Preface -- The Mutual Dynamics of Cultural and Environmental Change: An Introductory Essay -- Part I: Evaluating, Attributing and Deciding -- 1. Antinomies of Environmental Risk Perception: Cognitive Structure and Evaluation -- 2. Risk Management and Morality in Agriculture: Conventional and Organic Farming in a German Region -- 3. Attributed Causes of Environmental Problems: A Cross-Cultural Study of Coping Strategies -- 4. Decision-Making in Times of Disaster: The Acceptance of Wet-Rice Cultivation among the Aeta of Zambales, Philippines -- 5. Drought and ‘Natural’ Stress in the Southern Dra Valley: Varying Perceptions among Nomads and Farmers -- 6. Local Environmental Crises and Global Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Coastal Zones in Senegal -- 7. Meshing a Tight Net: A Cultural Response to the Threat of Open Access Fishing Grounds -- Part II: Knowledge, Meaning and Discourse -- 8. Dangers, Experience and Luck: Living with Uncertainty in the Andes -- 9. Transforming Livelihoods: Meanings and Concepts of Drought, Coping and Risk Management in Botswana -- 10. Cultural Politics of Natural Disasters: Discourses on Volcanic Eruptions in Indonesia -- 11. Knowing the Sea in the ‘Time of Progress’: Environmental Change, Parallel Knowledges and the Uses of Metaphor in Kerala (South India) -- 12. Mass Tourism and Ecological Problems in Seaside Resorts of Southern Thailand: Environmental Perceptions, Assessments and Behaviour Regarding the Problem of Waste -- 13. Local Experts – Expert Locals: A Comparative Perspective on Biodiversity and Environmental Knowledge Systems in Australia and Namibia -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
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Summary: | Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected. However, these different perspectives only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. In bringing together a variety of views and theoretical approaches , these especially commissioned essays prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780857450043 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780857450043 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Michael J. Casimir. |