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Title:
Culture and the changing environment : uncertainty, cognition and risk management in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Michael J. Casimir.
Publisher:
Berghahn Books,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
394 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Human ecology--Cross-cultural studies.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Cross-cultural studies.
Other Authors:
Casimir, Michael J.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Antinomies of environmental risk perception: cognitive structure and evaluation / Gisela Böhm and Hans-Rüdiger Pfister -- Risk management and morality in agriculture: conventional and organic farming in a German region / Thomas Dölring, Lutz H. Eckensberger, Annette Huppert and Heiko Breit -- Attributed causes of environmental problems: a cross-cultural study of coping strategies / Josef Nerb, Andrea Bender and Hans Spada -- Decision-making in times of disaster: the acceptance of wet-rice cultivation among the Aeta of Zambales, Philippines / Stefan Seitz -- Drought and 'natural' stress in the Southern Dra Valley: varying perceptions among nomads and farmers / Barbara Casciarri -- Local environmental crises and global sea-level rise: the case of coastal zones in Senegal / Anita Engels -- Meshing a tight net: a cultural response to the threat of open access fishing grounds / Andrea Bender -- Dangers, experience and luck: living with uncertainty in the Andes / Barbara Göbel -- Transforming livelihoods: meanings and concepts of drought, coping and risk management in Botswana / Fred Krüger and Andrea Grotzke -- Cultural politics of natural disasters: discourses on volcanic eruptions in Indonesia / Judith Schlehe -- Knowing the sea in the 'time of progress': environmental change, parallel knowledges and the uses of metaphor in Kerala (South India) / Gotz Hoeppe -- Mass tourism and ecological problems in seaside resorts of Southern Thailand: environmental perceptions, assessments and behaviour regarding the problem of waste / Karl Vorlaufer, Heike Becker-Baumann and Gabriela Schmitt -- Local experts - expert locals: a comparative perspective on biodiversity and environmental knowledge systems in Australia and Namibia / Thomas Widlok.
ISBN:
1571814787 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781571814784 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2008008513
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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