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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818263103321

Titolo

Culture and the changing environment : uncertainty, cognition and risk management in cross-cultural perspective / / edited by Michael J. Casimir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008

ISBN

0-85745-004-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CasimirMichael J

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human ecology

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Evaluating, attributing and deciding -- pt. II. Knowledge, meaning and discourse.

Sommario/riassunto

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 interdisci