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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.