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Culture and the Changing Environment
Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective1. Aufl.
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| Verlag: | Berghahn Books |
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| Veröffentl.: | 01.04.2008 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780857450043 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 410 |
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<p> 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.</p>
<p> List of Maps, Figures and Tables<br> Preface</p>
<p> The Mutual Dynamics of Cultural and Environmental Change: An Introductory Essay<br> <i>Michael J. Casimir</i></p>
<p> <b>PART I: EVALUATING, ATTRIBUTING AND DECIDING</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 1.</b> Antinomies of Environmental Risk Perception: Cognitive Structure and Evaluation<br> <i>Gisela Böhm</i> and <i>Hans-Rüdiger Pfister</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 2.</b> Risk Management and Morality in Agriculture: Conventional and Organic Farming in a German Region<br> <i>Thomas Döring</i>, <i>Lutz H. Eckensberger</i>, <i>Annette Huppert</i> and <i>Heiko Breit</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 3.</b> Attributed Causes of Environmental Problems: A Cross-Cultural Study of Coping Strategies<br> <i>Josef Nerb</i>, <i>Andrea Bender</i> and <i>Hans Spada</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 4.</b> Decision-Making in Times of Disaster: The Acceptance of Wet-Rice Cultivation among the Aeta of Zambales, Philippines<br> <i>Stefan Seitz</i></p>
<p> <a><b>Chapter 5.</b> Drought and ‘Natural’ Stress in the Southern Dra Valley: Varying Perceptions among Nomads and Farmers</a><br> <i>Barbara Casciarri</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 6.</b> Local Environmental Crises and Global Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Coastal Zones in Senegal<br> <i>Anita Engels</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 7.</b> Meshing a Tight Net: A Cultural Response to the Threat of Open Access Fishing Grounds<br> <i>Andrea Bender</i></p>
<p> <b>PART II: KNOWLEDGE, MEANING AND DISCOURSE</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 8.</b> Dangers, Experience and Luck: Living with Uncertainty in the Andes<br> <i>Barbara Göbel</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 9.</b> Transforming Livelihoods: Meanings and Concepts of Drought, Coping and Risk Management in Botswana<br> <i>Fred Krüger</i> and <i>Andrea Grotzke</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 10.</b> Cultural Politics of Natural Disasters: Discourses on Volcanic Eruptions in Indonesia<br> <i>Judith Schlehe</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 11.</b> Knowing the Sea in the ‘Time of Progress’: Environmental Change, Parallel Knowledges and the Uses of Metaphor in Kerala (South India)<br> <i>Götz Hoeppe</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 12.</b> Mass Tourism and Ecological Problems in Seaside Resorts of Southern Thailand: Environmental Perceptions, Assessments and Behaviour Regarding the Problem of Waste<br> <i>Karl Vorlaufer</i>, <i>Heike Becker-Baumann</i> and <i>Gabriela Schmitt</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 13.</b> Local Experts – Expert Locals: A Comparative Perspective on Biodiversity and Environmental Knowledge Systems in Australia and Namibia<br> <i>Thomas Widlok</i></p>
<p> Notes on Contributors<br> Index</p>
<p> The Mutual Dynamics of Cultural and Environmental Change: An Introductory Essay<br> <i>Michael J. Casimir</i></p>
<p> <b>PART I: EVALUATING, ATTRIBUTING AND DECIDING</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 1.</b> Antinomies of Environmental Risk Perception: Cognitive Structure and Evaluation<br> <i>Gisela Böhm</i> and <i>Hans-Rüdiger Pfister</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 2.</b> Risk Management and Morality in Agriculture: Conventional and Organic Farming in a German Region<br> <i>Thomas Döring</i>, <i>Lutz H. Eckensberger</i>, <i>Annette Huppert</i> and <i>Heiko Breit</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 3.</b> Attributed Causes of Environmental Problems: A Cross-Cultural Study of Coping Strategies<br> <i>Josef Nerb</i>, <i>Andrea Bender</i> and <i>Hans Spada</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 4.</b> Decision-Making in Times of Disaster: The Acceptance of Wet-Rice Cultivation among the Aeta of Zambales, Philippines<br> <i>Stefan Seitz</i></p>
<p> <a><b>Chapter 5.</b> Drought and ‘Natural’ Stress in the Southern Dra Valley: Varying Perceptions among Nomads and Farmers</a><br> <i>Barbara Casciarri</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 6.</b> Local Environmental Crises and Global Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Coastal Zones in Senegal<br> <i>Anita Engels</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 7.</b> Meshing a Tight Net: A Cultural Response to the Threat of Open Access Fishing Grounds<br> <i>Andrea Bender</i></p>
<p> <b>PART II: KNOWLEDGE, MEANING AND DISCOURSE</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 8.</b> Dangers, Experience and Luck: Living with Uncertainty in the Andes<br> <i>Barbara Göbel</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 9.</b> Transforming Livelihoods: Meanings and Concepts of Drought, Coping and Risk Management in Botswana<br> <i>Fred Krüger</i> and <i>Andrea Grotzke</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 10.</b> Cultural Politics of Natural Disasters: Discourses on Volcanic Eruptions in Indonesia<br> <i>Judith Schlehe</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 11.</b> Knowing the Sea in the ‘Time of Progress’: Environmental Change, Parallel Knowledges and the Uses of Metaphor in Kerala (South India)<br> <i>Götz Hoeppe</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 12.</b> Mass Tourism and Ecological Problems in Seaside Resorts of Southern Thailand: Environmental Perceptions, Assessments and Behaviour Regarding the Problem of Waste<br> <i>Karl Vorlaufer</i>, <i>Heike Becker-Baumann</i> and <i>Gabriela Schmitt</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 13.</b> Local Experts – Expert Locals: A Comparative Perspective on Biodiversity and Environmental Knowledge Systems in Australia and Namibia<br> <i>Thomas Widlok</i></p>
<p> Notes on Contributors<br> Index</p>
<p> <b>Michael J. Casimir</b> is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He has conducted prolonged fieldwork on the ecology, economy, environmental management and nutritional and socialisation patterns among pastoral nomads in west Afghanistan and Kashmir. Together with Aparna Rao he was chairperson of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples of the International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences (1995–1998), and was until 2004 one of the editors of <a href="http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/np/"><i>Nomadic Peoples</i></a> (Berghahn), the official journal of the Commission. His major publications include <i>Flocks and Food. A Biocultural Approach to the Study of Pastoral Foodways</i> (1991); <i>Mobility and Territoriality</i> (ed. 1992); <i>Nomadism in South Asia</i> (ed. 2003).</p>
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