Culture and the Changing Environment Uncertainty Cognition and Risk Management in Cross Cultural Perspective 1st Edition by Michael Casimir ISBN 1845456831 978-1845456832

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ISBN 10: 1845456831 

ISBN 13: 978-1845456832

Author: Michael J. Casimir

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.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Evaluating, Attributing and Deciding

Antinomies of Environmental Risk Perception: Cognitive Structure and Evaluation
Risk Management and Morality in Agriculture: Conventional and Organic Farming in a German Region
Attributed Causes of Environmental Problems: A Cross-Cultural Study of Coping Strategies
Decision-Making in Times of Disaster: The Acceptance of Wet-Rice Cultivation among the Aeta of Zambales, Philippines
Drought and ‘Natural’ Stress in the Southern Dra Valley: Varying Perceptions among Nomads and Farmers
Local Environmental Crises and Global Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Coastal Zones in Senegal
Meshing a Tight Net: A Cultural Response to the Threat of Open Access Fishing Grounds
Part II: Knowledge, Meaning and Discourse

Dangers, Experience and Luck: Living with Uncertainty in the Andes
Transforming Livelihoods: Meanings and Concepts of Drought, Coping and Risk Management in Botswana
Cultural Politics of Natural Disasters: Discourses on Volcanic Eruptions in Indonesia
Knowing the Sea in the ‘Time of Progress’: Environmental Change, Parallel Knowledges and the Uses of Metaphor in Kerala (South India)
Mass Tourism and Ecological Problems in Seaside Resorts of Southern Thailand: Environmental Perceptions, Assessments and Behaviour Regarding the Problem of Waste
Local Experts – Expert Locals: A Comparative Perspective on Biodiversity and Environmental Knowledge Systems in Australia and Namibia

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