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. |
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... natural resources' (for an overview see for example Delaney 2001). It is only more recently that such classifications have been questioned,3 partly because of our knowledge of the way in which all organisms depend on one another, tied ...
... natural' – which, to paraphrase Heidegger, can only be experienced through our bodily 'being in the world'. We thus face the dilemma of dealing with two different categories of nature – the 'really natural' and the 'culturally perceived ...
... natural and/or technological environment and a population in a socially and technologically produced condition of vulnerability. (cf. also Hoffmann and OliverSmith 2002) Such dangerous situations are not recent, they have always ...
... natural' and 'social'. This evidenced by the fact that many Western survivors of the recent tsunami have gone to court against a variety of organisations, charging them with negligence leading to loss of life. In their experimental ...
... natural resources and values are attributed to them. Dasgupta (2001: 124) differentiates between those that are natural resources which are of direct use in consumption (e.g., fisheries), those of indirect use as inputs in production ...
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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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