Ebook: Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Author: Michael J. Casimir (editor)
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Language: English
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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.
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