Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge : Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change /

Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people's livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This pos...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Antweiler, Christoph (Editor), Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2012]
Series:Global studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Southeast Asia.
Environmental degradation > Southeast Asia.
Environmental protection > Southeast Asia.
Global environmental change.
Climat > Changements > Asie du Sud-Est.
Environnement > Dégradation > Asie du Sud-Est.
Environnement > Protection > Asie du Sud-Est.
Changement global (Environnement)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Climatic changes
Environmental degradation
Environmental protection
Global environmental change
Southeast Asia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction / Antweiler, Christoph ; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina
  • 'Knowledge' in Development Discourse / Hornidge, Anna-Katharina
  • Urban Environmental Knowledge as Citizens' Science / Antweiler, Christoph
  • Conflicting Frames of Reference / Reichel, Christian ; MARTENS, SOFIE ELENA ; HARMS, ARNE
  • "We Observe the Weather because we are Farmers" / Ehlert, Judith
  • "Why did the Fish Cross the Road?" / Sillitoe, Paul ; Alam, Mahbub
  • Managing Fire Risk in Indonesia's Peatlands / Bizard, Viola
  • Cassava Diversity and Toxicity in Relation to Environmental Degradation / Ellen, Roy ; Soselisa, Hermien L.
  • What makes a Social System Resilient? / Deswandi, Rio ; Glaser, Marion ; Ferse, Sebastian
  • Afterthoughts / Scholtes, Fabian
  • Contributors.

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