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

By Michael J. Casimir

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.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571814787
• ISBN13: 9781571814784
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"