Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia : How are Local Cultures Coping?.
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2014.
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Colección: | Climate and Culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.