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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology; Nature - Effect of human beings on
• Altri autori: CasimirMichael J
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture And The Changing Environment
• ISBN: 0-85745-004-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818263103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II