Culture and the Changing Environment : : Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective /

Culture and the Changing Environment : : Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective / / ed. by Michael J. Casimir.

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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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MitwirkendeR:
Becker-Baumann, Heike,
Bender, Andrea,
Breit, Heiko,
Böhm, Gisela,
Casciarri, Barbara,
Casimir, Michael J.,
Döring, Thomas,
Eckensberger, Lutz H.,
Engels, Anita,
Grotzke, Andrea,
Göbel, Barbara,
Hoeppe, Götz,
Huppert, Annette,
Krüger, Fred,
Nerb, Josef,
Pfister, Hans-Rüdiger,
Schlehe, Judith,
Schmitt, Gabriela,
Seitz, Stefan,
Spada, Hans,
Vorlaufer, Karl,
Widlok, Thomas,
HerausgeberIn:
Casimir, Michael J.,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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