Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies : : Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia / / ed. by Roy Ellen.

• MitwirkendeR: Dove, Michael R.,; Ellen, Roy,; Iskandar, Johan,; Meitzner Yoder, Laura S.,; Novellino, Dario,; Platten, Simon,; Puri, Rajindra K.,; Soemarwoto, Rini,; Soselisa, Hermien L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ellen, Roy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress (e.g. 1997 El Niño), political conflict and economic hazards. The book will also evaluate positive examples of how traditional knowledge has enabled local populations to cope with these kinds of insecurity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Niño, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo -- 3. Kasepuhan Rice Landrace Diversity, Risk Management and Agricultural Modernization -- 4. Responses to Environmental Stress in the Baduy Swidden System, South Banten, Java -- 5. Innovation, ‘Hybrid’ Knowledge and the Conservation of Relict Rainforest in Upland Banten -- 6. A Comparison of Traditional and Innovative Subsistence Strategies on Buano during Periods of Socio-environmental Stress, 1980–2003 -- 7. A Tradition of Change in Minahasan Agricultural Strategies, North Sulawesi -- 8. Cycles of Politics and Cycles of Nature: Permanent Crisis in the Uplands of Palawan -- 9. The Tobe and Tara Bandu: a Post-independence Renaissance of Historic Forest Regulation Authorities and Practices in Oecusse, East Timor -- 10. Perceptions of Local Knowledge and Adaptation on Mount Merapi, Central Java -- Index