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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, Damian

Titel

Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 2010-01, Vol.14 (1), p.101-102

Ort / Verlag

Athens: University of South Florida

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Choosing to focus on the Indonesian forest fire in the late 1990s is a prime example of how causation can lead to different answers and research priorities; originally researchers concluded the Indonesian government forestry policy contributed to the widespread forest fires. Vayda argues for and demonstrates that asking focused research questions based on casual explanations of events, backed up with systematically collected evidence can provide a more fine-grained analysis and a realistic picture of environmental changes, While Vayda does an excellent job advocating for the use of causal explanation as an effective method, many times throughout the book he continues to hammer away at past themes, such as in the reexamination of Walters and Vayda, Against Political Ecology in Chapter 6.