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Culture and the changing environment : uncertainty, cognition and risk management in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Michael J. Casimir.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Cross-cultural studies.
- Human ecology.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Cross-cultural studies.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 interdisci
- Contents:
- pt. I. Evaluating, attributing and deciding
- pt. II. Knowledge, meaning and discourse.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857450043
- 0857450042
- OCLC:
- 855969629
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