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Culture and the changing environment : uncertainty, cognition and risk management in cross-cultural perspective /

"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 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Casimir, Michael J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (394 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857450043
0857450042