Anna-Katharina Hornidge & Christoph Antweiler 
Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge [PDF ebook] 
Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change

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Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation as well as global climate change increasingly threaten people’s livelihoods. Environmentally-based uncertainties foster a high level of knowledge uncertainty. This poses a constantly growing threat to agricultural production. Vulnerable communities with a low degree of resilience are most severely affected.

But local communities have abilities to innovate and develop locally embedded coping strategies. The contributors of this volume are most interested in environmental change that fosters knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Sumatra and South Sulawesi in Indonesia and Tangail Region in Bangladesh.

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Christoph Antweiler (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt Südostasienwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn. Seine theoretischen Forschungsschwerpunkte sind soziokulturelle Evolution, Kultur-Universalien und lokales Wissen. Seine regionalen Forschungsthemen sind Kognition, Migration und Ethnizität in Indonesien.

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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 284 ● ISBN 9783839419595 ● Mărime fișier 3.4 MB ● Editor Anna-Katharina Hornidge & Christoph Antweiler ● Editura transcript Verlag ● Publicat 2014 ● Ediție 1 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 3048849 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor DRM social

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