Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge : : Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change / / ed. by Christoph Antweiler, Anna-Katharina Hornidge.

Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This pos...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2012
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Global Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • ‘Knowledge’ in Development Discourse
  • Urban Environmental Knowledge as Citizens’ Science
  • Conflicting Frames of Reference
  • “We Observe the Weather because we are Farmers”
  • “Why did the Fish Cross the Road?”
  • Managing Fire Risk in Indonesia’s Peatlands
  • Cassava Diversity and Toxicity in Relation to Environmental Degradation
  • What makes a Social System Resilient?
  • Afterthoughts
  • Contributors