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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Culture and the Changing Environment
Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Table of contents
- CULTURE AND THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES AND TABLES
- PREFACE
- THE MUTUAL DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
- PART I: EVALUATING, ATTRIBUTING AND DECIDING
- CHAPTER 1: ANTINOMIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK PERCEPTION
- CHAPTER 2: RISK MANAGEMENT AND MORALITY IN AGRICULTURE
- CHAPTER 3: ATTRIBUTED CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
- CHAPTER 4: DECISION-MAKING IN TIMES OF DISASTER
- CHAPTER 5: DROUGHT AND ‘NATURAL’ STRESS IN THE SOUTHERN DRA VALLEY
- CHAPTER 6: LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES AND GLOBAL SEA-LEVEL RISE
- CHAPTER 7: MESHING A TIGHT NET
- PART II: KNOWLEDGE, MEANING AND DISCOURSE
- CHAPTER 8: DANGERS, EXPERIENCE AND LUCK
- CHAPTER 9:TRANSFORMING LIVELIHOODS
- CHAPTER 10: CULTURAL POLITICS OF NATURAL DISASTERS
- CHAPTER 11: KNOWING THE SEA IN THE ‘TIME OF PROGRESS’
- CHAPTER 12: MASS TOURISM AND ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SEASIDE RESORTS OF SOUTHERN THAILAND
- CHAPTER 13: LOCAL EXPERTS – EXPERT LOCALS
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
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