Title Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia : How are Local Cultures Coping?

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Leiden : BRILL, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (350 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Climate and Culture
	Climate and Culture.
Contents	Foreword; Carmen Meinert ; Claus Leggewie; Preface; Barbara Schuler; Abbreviations; List of Figures and Tables; Glossary of Terms and Names of Key Figures in Asian Languages*; Notes on Contributors; Conventions; Introduction; Barbara Schuler; part 1; Ideas ; Chapter 1; Cosmos, Commodity, and Care: Three Layers in Hindu Environmental Awareness; Albertina Nugteren; Chapter 2; Ideas and Images of Nature in Thai Buddhism: Continuity and Change; Martin Seeger; Chapter 3; Shifting Notions of Nature and Environmentalism in Indonesian Islam; Monika Arnez; part 2; Past; Chapter 4.
	Irrigation in South Thailand as a Coping Strategy against Climate Change: Past and PresentJanice Stargardt; Chapter 5; The Emergence of the Cryoscape: Contested Narratives of Himalayan Glacier Dynamics and Climate Change; Marcus Nüsser and Ravi Baghel; part 3; Present ; Chapter 6; A Shift in India's Domestic and International Climate Policy?; Joachim Betz; Chapter 7; New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi; Somnath Batabyal; part 4; Prospects ; Chapter 8 ; Environmental Justice in Thailand in the Age of Climate Change; Susan M. Darlington; Chapter 9.
	Mitigating Climate Change: An Additional Role for Technology and Policy in India as well as International ArenasRüdiger Haum; Chapter 10; Institutional Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia: The Role of Asean ; Dennis Eucker; Bibliography; Index.
Summary	Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia offers a cultural studies'' perspective on how local cultures cope with climate changes and environmental crises. The focus is on Hindu India, Islamic Indonesia, Buddhist Thailand, and Himalayan glaciers.
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Subject	Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- South Asia.
	Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
	South Asia.
	Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Southeast Asia.
	Southeast Asia.
	Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
	Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
	Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia.
	Environmental degradation -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
	Environmental degradation -- Social aspects.
	Environmental degradation.
	Environmental degradation -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia.
	Human ecology -- South Asia.
	Human ecology.
	Human ecology -- Southeast Asia.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Schuler, Barbara.
Other Form:	Print version: Schuler, Barbara. Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia. Leiden : BRILL, 2014 9789004245884
ISBN	9789004273221 (electronic book)
	9004273220 (electronic book)
	9789004273221
	9004273220

Title Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia : How are Local Cultures Coping?

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