Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies : : Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia / / ed. by Roy Ellen.
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 s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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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