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MODERN CRISES AND TRADITIONAL STRATEGIES
LOCAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA |
| By: |
Roy Ellen (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£85.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845453123 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845453121 |
| Publisher: |
BERGHAHN BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
5 April, 2007 |
| Series: |
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology 6 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Explores such issues as the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress, political conflict and economic hazards. This book evaluates how traditional knowledge helps to cope with these kinds of insecurity. |
| Synopsis: |
The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues to be explored in this book will be the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress (e.g. 1997 El Nino), political conflict and economic hazards. The book will also evaluate positive examples of how traditional knowledge has enabled local populations to cope with these kinds of insecurity. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Berghahn Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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