{"product_id":"culture-and-the-changing-environment-uncertainty-cognition-and-risk-management-in-cross-cultural-perspective-9781845456832","title":"Culture and the Changing Environment:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tToday 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 interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This remarkable anthology of 13 essays is a cross-cultural study on ecological anthropology, which examines the cultural construction of nature, human evaluation of environmental risks, and human action to mitigate such risks. The anthology persuasively critiques the privileging of Western rationality over culture-specific perspectives of environmental change… [It] stands alone for the geographical sweep of its contributions - from Europe, Asia, and Africa - and its disciplinary eclecticism, which draws deeply on anthropology, geography, psychology, ethnography, ethnology, and sociology… Essential.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Maps, Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tThe Mutual Dynamics of Cultural and Environmental Change: An Introductory Essay\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael J. Casimir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: EVALUATING, ATTRIBUTING AND DECIDING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Antinomies of Environmental Risk Perception: Cognitive Structure and Evaluation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGisela Böhm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHans-Rüdiger Pfister\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Risk Management and Morality in Agriculture: Conventional and Organic Farming in a German Region\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eThomas Döring\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLutz H. Eckensberger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnnette Huppert\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHeiko Breit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Attributed Causes of Environmental Problems: A Cross-Cultural Study of Coping Strategies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJosef Nerb\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAndrea Bender\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHans Spada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Decision-Making in Times of Disaster: The Acceptance of Wet-Rice Cultivation among the Aeta of Zambales, Philippines\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eStefan Seitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Drought and ‘Natural’ Stress in the Southern Dra Valley: Varying Perceptions among Nomads and Farmers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBarbara Casciarri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Local Environmental Crises and Global Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Coastal Zones in Senegal\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnita Engels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Meshing a Tight Net: A Cultural Response to the Threat of Open Access Fishing Grounds\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAndrea Bender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: KNOWLEDGE, MEANING AND DISCOURSE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Dangers, Experience and Luck: Living with Uncertainty in the Andes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBarbara Göbel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Transforming Livelihoods: Meanings and Concepts of Drought, Coping and Risk Management in Botswana\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eFred Krüger\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAndrea Grotzke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Cultural Politics of Natural Disasters: Discourses on Volcanic Eruptions in Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJudith Schlehe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Knowing the Sea in the ‘Time of Progress’: Environmental Change, Parallel Knowledges and the Uses of Metaphor in Kerala (South India)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGötz Hoeppe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Mass Tourism and Ecological Problems in Seaside Resorts of Southern Thailand: Environmental Perceptions, Assessments and Behaviour Regarding the Problem of Waste\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKarl Vorlaufer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeike Becker-Baumann\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGabriela Schmitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Local Experts – Expert Locals: A Comparative Perspective on Biodiversity and Environmental Knowledge Systems in Australia and Namibia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eThomas Widlok\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042984362327,"sku":"9781845456832","price":25.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845456832.jpg?v=1750956523","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-and-the-changing-environment-uncertainty-cognition-and-risk-management-in-cross-cultural-perspective-9781845456832","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}