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