Roy (Hrsg.) Ellen

Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Buch

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 explored in this book are 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 Niño), political confli… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84545-312-1
EAN: 9781845453121
Produktnummer: 14819963
Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 573 g
Auflage: New
Reihenbandnummer: 6
Gewicht: 573

Über den Autor

Roy Ellen was educated at the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has taught since 1973. His numerous and varied publications include Environment, Subsistence and System (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Cultural Relations of Classification (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and most recently, The Categorical Impulse (Berghahn Books, 2005). He convenes the Kent Programme in Ethnobotany and has published widely on indigenous knowledge. In 2003 he was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy.