Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural PerspectiveMichael J. Casimir Berghahn Books, 01/04/2008 - 410 páginas 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. |
Índice
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EVALUATING ATTRIBUTING AND DECIDING | 59 |
ANTINOMIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK PERCEPTION | 61 |
RISK MANAGEMENT AND MORALITY IN AGRICULTURE | 79 |
ATTRIBUTED CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS | 107 |
DECISIONMAKING IN TIMES OF DISASTER | 125 |
DROUGHT AND NATURAL STRESS IN THE SOUTHERN DRA VALLEY | 147 |
LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES AND GLOBAL SEALEVEL RISE | 175 |
DANGERS EXPERIENCE AND LUCK | 221 |
TRANSFORMING LIVELIHOODS | 251 |
CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATURAL DISASTERS | 275 |
KNOWING THE SEA IN THE TIME OF PROGRESS | 301 |
MASS TOURISM AND ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SEASIDE RESORTS OF SOUTHERN THAILAND | 325 |
LOCAL EXPERTS EXPERT LOCALS | 351 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 383 |
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