Modern crises and traditional strategies : local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia /: local ecological knowledge in island Southeast Asia. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roy Ellen.
• Editors: Ellen, R. F, 1947-
• Other Names: International Congress of Ethnobiology, 9th
• Contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; List of Contributors <a href="/downloads/intros/EllenModern_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Chapter 1. Introduction; Roy Ellen Chapter 2. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Niño, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo; Rajindra K. Puri Chapter 3. Kasepuhan Rice Landrace Diversity, Risk Management and Agricultural Modernization; Rini Soemarwoto Chapter 4. Responses to Environmental Stress in the Baduy Swidden System, South Banten, Java; Johan Iskandar Chaptert 5. Innovation, 'Hybrid' Knowledge and the Conservation of Relict Rainforest in Upland Banten; Johan Iskandar and Roy Ellen Chapter 6. A Comparison of Traditional and Innovative Subsistence Strategies on Buano during Periods of Socio-environmental Stress, 1980&ndash;2003; Hermien L. Soselisa Chapter 7. A Tradition of Change in Minahasan Agricultural Strategies, North Sulawesi; Simon Platten Chapter 8. Cycles of Politics and Cycles of Nature: Permanent Crisis in the Uplands of Palawan; Dario Novellino Chapter 9. The Tobe and Tara Bandu : a Post-independence Renaissance of Historic Forest Regulation Authorities and Practices in Oecusse, East Timor; Laura S. Metzner Yoder Chapter 10. Perceptions of Local Knowledge and Adaptation on Mount Merapi, Central Java; Michael R. Dove Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 304.20959; Human ecology -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Traditional ecological knowledge -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Rain forest ecology -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Traditional farming -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Subsistence economy -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Cultural fusion -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SCIENCE / Environmental Science; Cultural fusion; Ecology; Human ecology; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology; Rain forest ecology; Social conditions; Subsistence economy; Traditional ecological knowledge; Traditional farming; Southeast Asia -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Southeast Asia -- Environmental conditions -- Congresses; Southeast Asia; Electronic books; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857452832; 0857452835; 1306690218; 9781306690218
• Related ISBNs: 9780857451453; 0857451456
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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