LEADER 04368nam 22005175 450 001 9910253950603321 005 20231013135659.0 010 $a3-319-62491-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-62491-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000000587454 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-62491-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5024567 035 $a(PPN)204536588 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000587454 100 $a20170906d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIndigenous Environmental Knowledge $eReappraisal /$fby John Edington 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 263 p. 100 illus.) 311 $a3-319-62490-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. PREFACE -- 2. FARMING -- Origins.-Responding to site and soil variations -- Coping with seasonal variations -- Maintaining soil fertility -- Coping with weeds and pests -- Cultural and religious  for change -- 3.  FOOD SUPPLIES AND NUTRITION -- Traditional diets -- Insights from nutritional science -- Input patterns for different classes of nutrients -- Starvation and malnutrition The paradoxical efficacy of traditional diets -- 4. HOUSE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION -- Design criteria -- The humid tropics -- The tropical highlands -- The desert fringe -- The temperate zone -- Pressures for change -- A future for traditional designs?- 5. FUEL SUPPLIES -- Traditional wood harvesting -- Disruptive influences -- Alternative energy sources -- Better ways of burning wood -- Rehabilitating forests -- Overall sustainability of firewood production systems -- 6. HERBAL MEDICINE -- Mixed expectations -- Patterns of village use -- Residual difficulties -- Remedial strategies -- 7. WATER SUPPLY AND WASTE DISPOSAL -- Water use -- Water quality issues -- Other water and waste related hazards -- Remedial strategies -- 8. PROSPECTS FOR VILLGE DEVELOPMENT -- Quality of life shortfalls -- External factors -- Influences arising from within communities -- Constructive interventions -- Augmenting incomes -- Comprehensive development plans -- 9. LESSONS FOR THE WORLD AT LARGE -- Contemporary issues -- Energy economies in agriculture and food distribution -- Energy economies in architecture and household management -- Protecting crop diversity -- Lessons from traditional medicine -- Improving dietary balance -- Attitudes to wild species -- REFERENCES. 330 $aThis book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge. It shows that in some spheres, including agriculture, house design, fuel and water manipulation, the high reputation of local observers is well deserved and often sufficiently insightful to warrant wider imitation. However it also reveals that in certain matters, notably some aspects of health care and wild-species population management, local knowledge systems are conspicuously unsound. Not all the difficulties are of the communities own making, some stem from external factors outside their control. However in either case, remedial measures can be suggested and this book describes, especially for the benefit of practitioners, what steps might be taken in rural communities to improve the quality of life. The possibility of useful transfers of information from local settings to Western ones is not ignored and forms the subject of the book?s final chapter.    >. 606 $aAgriculture 606 $aEcology  606 $aAnthropology 606 $aAgriculture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L11006 606 $aEcology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L19007 606 $aAnthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12000 615 0$aAgriculture. 615 0$aEcology . 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 14$aAgriculture. 615 24$aEcology. 615 24$aAnthropology. 676 $a630 700 $aEdington$b John M$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$074839 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910253950603321 996 $aIndigenous Environmental Knowledge$93569575 997 $aUNINA