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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... social science research in Germany – all funded by the German Research Council (DFG) – and all but one was carried out under the aegis of either the multidisciplinary Schwerpunktprogram (SPP) Mensch und Globale Umweltveränderungen ...
... social and/or religious norms that structure the social fabric (see the paper by Schlehe, this volume). Every extraordinary environmental event – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, eclipses, comets, etc. – are perceived as omens ...
... social good.' The follow-up Camdessus Report (2003) concluded that the solution to water financing, notably in poorer countries, was to privatise it. Such conclusions contravene a UN declaration of 2002 which declares that 'Water should ...
... social and moral norms (murder, adultery, theft, etc.) are often interpreted as sins for which due punishment is sent down by the relevant supernatural authority. Thus, for example, when AIDS broke out, the Pope eagerly explained that ...
... social networks, rituals and the respect of norms concerning the modes of interaction with their environment. This analytical perspective, she suggests, also provides tools to explain why conflicts arise when local perceptions of risk ...
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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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