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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Becker-Baumann, Heike
• Bender, Andrea
• Breit, Heiko
• Böhm, Gisela
• Casciarri, Barbara
• Casimir, Michael J
• Casimir, Michael J[Herausgeber]
• Döring, Thomas
• Eckensberger, Lutz H
• Engels, Anita
• Grotzke, Andrea
• Göbel, Barbara
• Hoeppe, Götz
• Huppert, Annette
• Krüger, Fred
• Nerb, Josef
• Pfister, Hans-Rüdiger
• Schlehe, Judith
• Schmitt, Gabriela
• Seitz, Stefan
• Spada, Hans
• Vorlaufer, Karl
• Widlok, Thomas

Titel

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

Ort / Verlag

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2008]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• 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