Landscape, process and power : a re-evaluating traditional environmental knowledge /: a re-evaluating traditional environmental knowledge. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Serena Heckler.
• Other Names: Heckler, Serena
• Contents: List of figures, maps and tables; List of contributors Preface ; Roy Ellen PART I: THE CURRENT STATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE RESEARCH Introduction ; Serena Heckler Chapter 1. A genealogy of scientific representations of indigenous knowledge; Stanford Zent PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND POWER Chapter 2. The cultural and economic globalisation of traditional environmental knowledge systems; Miguel Alexiades Chapter 3. Competing and coexisting with cormorants: Ambiguity and change in European wetlands; David N. Carss and Mariella Marzano Chapter 4. Pathways to developmen: Identity, landscape & industry in Papua New Guinea; Emma Gilberthorpe PART III: PROCESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE Chapter 5. How do they see it? Traditional resource management, disturbance and biodiversity conservation in Papua New Guinea; William Thomas Chapter 6. Wild plants as agricultural indicators: Linking Ethnobotany with traditional ecological knowledge; Takeshi Fujimoto Chapter 7. How does migration affect ethnobotanical knowledge and social organisation in a west Papuan village?; Manuel Boissière PART IV: LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE Chapter 8. Reproduction and development of expertise within communities of practice: A case study of fishing activities in south Buton; Daniel Vermonden Chapter 9. Review of an attempt to apply the carrying capacity concept in the New Guinea highlands: Cultural practice disconcerts ecological expectation; Paul Sillitoe Chapter 10. Managing the Gabra Oromo commons of Kenya, past and present; Aneesa Kassam and Francis Chachu Ganya Notes on contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 289 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 333.72; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology; Conservation of natural resources; Sustainable development; Environmental education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development; NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Conservation of natural resources; Environmental education; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology; Sustainable development; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845459048; 1845459040
• Related ISBNs: 9781845455491; 1845455495
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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