| Description |
1 online resource (394 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Antinomies of environmental risk perception : cognitive structure and evaluation / Gisela Böhm and Hans-Rüdiger Pfister -- Risk management and morality in agriculture : conventional and organic farming in a German region / Thomas Döring, Lutz H. Eckensberger, Annette Huppert and Heiko Breit -- Attributed causes of environmental problems : a cross-cultural study of coping strategies / Josef Nerb, Andrea Bender and Hans Spada -- Decision-making in times of disaster : the acceptance of wet-rice cultivation among the Aeta of Zambales, Philippines / Stefan Seitz -- Drought and 'natural' stress in the Southern Dra Valley : varying perceptions among nomads and farmers / Barbara Casciarri -- Local environmental crises and global sea-level rise : the case of coastal zones in Senegal / Anita Engels -- Meshing a tight net : a cultural response to the threat of open access fishing grounds / Andrea Bender -- Dangers, experience and luck : living with uncertainty in the Andes / Barbara Göbel -- Transforming livelihoods : meanings and concepts of drought, coping and risk management in Botswana / Fred Krüger and Andrea Grotzke -- Cultural politics of natural disasters : discourses on volcanic eruptions in Indonesia / Judith Schlehe -- Knowing the sea in the 'time of progress' : environmental change, parallel knowledges and the uses of metaphor in Kerala (South India) / Götz Hoeppe -- Mass tourism and ecological problems in seaside resorts of Southern Thailand : environmental perceptions, assessments and behaviour regarding the problem of waste / Karl Vorlaufer, Heike Becker-Baumann and Gabriela Schmitt -- Local experts, expert locals : a comparative perspective on biodiversity and environmental knowledge systems in Australia and Namibia / Thomas Widlok. |
| Summary |
"Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected. However, these different perspectives only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. In bringing together a variety of views and theoretical approaches, these especially commissioned essays prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Cross-cultural studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. |
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. |
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Human ecology. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Anthropogeography & Human Ecology. |
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Anthropology. |
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Social Sciences. |
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Umwelt -- Mensch -- Kulturvergleich. |
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Mensch -- Umwelt -- Kulturvergleich. |
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Ethnoökologie. |
| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
Casimir, Michael J., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture and the changing environment. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008 9781571814784 (DLC) 2008008513 (OCoLC)148840553 |
| ISBN |
9780857450043 (electronic book) |
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0857450042 (electronic book) |
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9781571814784 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1571814787 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781845456832 (paperback) |
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1845456831 (paperback) |
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