Culture and the Changing Environment
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Culture and the Changing Environment

Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Culture and the Changing Environment

Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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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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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2008
ISBN
9780857450043
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. CULTURE AND THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
  2. CONTENTS
  3. LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES AND TABLES
  4. PREFACE
  5. THE MUTUAL DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
  6. PART I: EVALUATING, ATTRIBUTING AND DECIDING
  7. CHAPTER 1: ANTINOMIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK PERCEPTION
  8. CHAPTER 2: RISK MANAGEMENT AND MORALITY IN AGRICULTURE
  9. CHAPTER 3: ATTRIBUTED CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
  10. CHAPTER 4: DECISION-MAKING IN TIMES OF DISASTER
  11. CHAPTER 5: DROUGHT AND ‘NATURAL’ STRESS IN THE SOUTHERN DRA VALLEY
  12. CHAPTER 6: LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES AND GLOBAL SEA-LEVEL RISE
  13. CHAPTER 7: MESHING A TIGHT NET
  14. PART II: KNOWLEDGE, MEANING AND DISCOURSE
  15. CHAPTER 8: DANGERS, EXPERIENCE AND LUCK
  16. CHAPTER 9:TRANSFORMING LIVELIHOODS
  17. CHAPTER 10: CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATURAL DISASTERS
  18. CHAPTER 11: KNOWING THE SEA IN THE ‘TIME OF PROGRESS’
  19. CHAPTER 12: MASS TOURISM AND ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SEASIDE RESORTS OF SOUTHERN THAILAND
  20. CHAPTER 13: LOCAL EXPERTS – EXPERT LOCALS
  21. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  22. INDEX