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Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, Band 6 1. Aufl.

von: Roy Ellen
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.07.2007
ISBN/EAN:	9780857452832
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	288

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Titelbeschreibung

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress (e.g. 1997 El Niño), political conflict and economic hazards. The book will also evaluate positive examples of how traditional knowledge has enabled local populations to cope with these kinds of insecurity.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures List of Tables Preface List of Contributors
 <a>Chapter 1.</a><a> Introduction</a> Roy Ellen
 Chapter 2. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Niño, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo Rajindra K. Puri
 Chapter 3. Kasepuhan Rice Landrace Diversity, Risk Management and Agricultural Modernization Rini Soemarwoto
 Chapter 4. Responses to Environmental Stress in the Baduy Swidden System, South Banten, Java Johan Iskandar
 Chaptert 5. Innovation, ‘Hybrid’ Knowledge and the Conservation of Relict Rainforest in Upland Banten Johan Iskandar and Roy Ellen
 Chapter 6. A Comparison of Traditional and Innovative Subsistence Strategies on Buano during Periods of Socio-environmental Stress, 1980–2003 Hermien L. Soselisa
 Chapter 7. A Tradition of Change in Minahasan Agricultural Strategies, North Sulawesi Simon Platten
 Chapter 8. Cycles of Politics and Cycles of Nature: Permanent Crisis in the Uplands of Palawan Dario Novellino
 Chapter 9. The Tobe and Tara Bandu: a Post-independence Renaissance of Historic Forest Regulation Authorities and Practices in Oecusse, East Timor Laura S. Metzner Yoder
 Chapter 10. Perceptions of Local Knowledge and Adaptation on Mount Merapi, Central Java Michael R. Dove
 Index

Autorenportrait

Roy Ellen was educated at the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has taught since 1973. His numerous and varied publications include Environment, Subsistence and System (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Cultural Relations of Classification (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and most recently, <a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=EllenCategorical">The Categorical Impulse</a> (Berghahn Books, 2005). He convenes the Kent Programme in Ethnobotany and has published widely on indigenous knowledge. In 2003 he was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy.