Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index.
Contents
Landscape with figures -- Feng-shui: ideology and ecology -- Chinese nutritional therapy -- Learning from the land otter: religious representation of traditional resource management -- Managing the rainforest: Maya agriculture in the town of the wild plums -- Needs and human nature -- Information processing: rational and irrational transcended -- Culture: ecology in a wider context -- In and out of institutions -- The disenchanted: religion as ecological control, and its modern fate.
Summary
A treatment of the ways that humans process information in relation to resource management. It aims to answer the question of why people hold beliefs about the environment that is counterfactual to modern scientists.
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