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UNINA9910818263103321 |
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Titolo |
Culture and the changing environment : uncertainty, cognition and risk management in cross-cultural perspective / / edited by Michael J. Casimir |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human ecology |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. Evaluating, attributing and deciding -- pt. II. Knowledge, meaning and discourse. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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