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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132197603321

Autore

Manfredo Michael J

Titolo

Understanding Society and Natural Resources [[electronic resource] ] : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences / / edited by Michael J. Manfredo, Jerry J. Vaske, Andreas Rechkemmer, Esther A. Duke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2014

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

94-017-8959-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 261 pages) : illustrations (some colour)

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Disciplina

333.72

Soggetti

Social sciences

Geoecology

Environmental geology

Human geography

Social Sciences, general

Geoecology/Natural Processes

Human Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book is a publication of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface I: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri -- Preface II: Paul J. Crutzen -- Introduction -- Part I: The Status of Integration: Chapter 1: Historical Perspective on the Diversity versus Unity in the Social Sciences: Al Luloff, Philip Lowe, Jeff Bridger -- Chapter 2: Integration via Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences and Beyond: Concept, Content and Cases: Susan Clark, Richard Wallace Josh Goldstein -- Chapter 3: A Vision for Science Integration in Addressing Natural Resource Issues: Robert Costanza -- Chapter 4: Natural Resource Governance: Is Disciplinary Integration Necessary?: Arun Agrawal -- Chapter 5: Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB): Integrating Social Science and the Humanities into Earth Systems Governance: Ilan Kelman, Eugene Rosa, Tom R. Burns, Nora Machado,



Lennart Olsson, Paul Ehrlich, Don Kennedy -- Chapter 6: Neuroeconomic: John M. Gowdy -- Chapter 7: The Humanities as Hypotheses for Understanding Resource Challenges and Conflicts: Bron Taylor -- Part 2: Topics in Integration: Chapter 8: Innovative Multi-level Approaches to Risk Governance Research: Armin Haas, Peijun Shi, Qian Ye -- Chapter 9: Livelihoods, Poverty, and Conservation : Lucca Tacconi, Andrew Vayda -- Chapter 10: Who’s afraid of Thomas Malthus?: Jörg Friedrichs -- Chapter 11: Developing Social - Ecological Models of Emerging Infectious Disease: Melissa L. Finucane, Jefferson Fox, Sumeet Saksena, Jim Spencer -- Chapter 12: Social Perspectives on Land Degradation and Desertification: The Case of Migration and Conflict: Andreas Rechkemmer, Walter Amman,  Luc Gnacadja -- Chapter 13: Seeking Multilevel Dimensions for Social-Psychological Research in Society and Natural Resources: Mike Manfredo, Elke Weber, Tara Teel -- Part 3: Methodological Advances for Facilitating Social Science Integration: Chapter 14: Human Agency in Spatial Models of Land Change: Peter Verburg -- Chapter 15: Agent-based Modeling: Randall Boone, Kathleen Galvin -- Chapter 16: Social Network Analysis: Philip Vaughter and Jeff Broadbent -- Chapter 17: Systems and Learning Approaches for Integrating Social Sciences into Policy Processes: Kevin Collins.

Sommario/riassunto

In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples, and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777588903321

Autore

Whitten Norman E

Titolo

Millennial Ecuador [[electronic resource] ] : Critical Essays Cultural Transformations

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2003

ISBN

1-58729-448-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Disciplina

305.898/0866

305.8980866

Soggetti

Ecuador -- Politics and government

Ecuador -- Race relations

Ecuador -- Social conditions

Ecuador -- Social policy

Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Government relations

Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Politics and government

Indians of South America -- Ecuador -- Social conditions

Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Government relations

Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Politics and government

Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Orthography, Pronunciation, and Acronyms; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.; 2. The Modern Political Transformation of the Secoya by William T. Vickers; 3. Haunting the Present: Five Colonial Legacies for the New Millennium by Kris Lane; 4. The Catholic Church, Ritual, and Power in Salasaca by Rachel Corr; 5. Purgatory, Protestantism, and Peonage: Napo Runa Evangelicals and the Domestication of the Masculine Will by Michael A. Uzendoski; 6. The Devil and Development in Esmeraldas: Cosmology as aSystem of Critical Thought by Diego Quiroga

7. Return of the Yumbo: The Caminata from Amazonia to Andean Quito by Norman E. Whitten, Jr., Dorothea Scott Whitten, and Alfonso Chango 8. Indigenous Destiny in Indigenous Hands by Luis Macas, Linda Belote,



and Jim Belote Dorothea Scott Whitten; 9. Actors and Artists from Amazonia and the Andes by Dorothea Scott Whitten; 10. Tigua Migrant Communities and the Possibilities for Autonomy among Urban Indígenas by Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld; 11. Racist Stereotypes and the Embodiment of Blackness:Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito by Jean Muteba Rahier

12. Mothers of the Patria: La Chola Cuencana and La Mama Negra by Mary J. Weismantel 13. Epilogue by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.; Appendix: General Information on Ecuador by Michelle Wibbelsman; Glossary; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Millennial Ecuador is a superb collection of essays by leading anthropologists, historians, and indigenous intellectuals that provides a multifaceted, critical view of the social and cultural practices of Andean, Amazonian, and Afro-Ecuadorian peoples engaged in mounting political struggles. Focusing on the clash between structural and contra-structural power, on empowerment processes of traditionally disenfranchised populations, and on multiple and competing representations of current confrontations, the book constitutes an outstanding analysis of the contradictions of modern and millennial gl