Culture and the Changing Environment : Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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| Title: | Culture and the Changing Environment : Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Michael J. Casimir |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Human ecology--Cross-cultural studies, Nature--Effect of human beings on--Cross-cultural studies |
| Categories: | NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781571814784 9781845456832 9780857450043 |
