Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Paperback

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 interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible.

• | Author: Michael J. Casimir
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 410 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1845456831
• | ISBN-13: 9781845456832