Culture and the changing environment : uncertainty, cognition and risk management in cross-cultural perspective

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Autres auteurs : Casimir Michael J. (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Culture and the changing environment : uncertainty, cognition and risk management in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Michael J. Casimir
Publié : New York, Oxford : Berghahn Books , 2008
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (394 p.)
Contenu : 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
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