| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Series |
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 10 |
| Contents |
Title page-Landscape, Process and Power; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-A Genealogy of Scientific Representations of Indigenous Knowledge; Chapter 3-The Cultural and Economic Globlaisation of Traditional Environmental Knowledge Systems; Chapter 4-Competing and Coexisting with Cormorants; Chapter 5-Pathways to Developmen; Chapter 6-How Do They See It?; Chapter 7-Wild Plants as Agricultural Indicators; Chapter 8-How Does Migration Affect Ethnobotaanical Knowledge and Social Organisation in a West Papuan Village? |
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Chapter 9-Reproduction and Development of Expertise Within Communities of PracticeChapter 10-Review of an Attempt to Apply the Carrying Capacity Concept in the New Guinea Highlands; Chapter 11-Managing the Gabra Oromo Commons of Kenya, Past and Present; Index |
| Summary |
In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions, for instance that scientific methods can accurately elicit and describe TEK or that incorporating it into development projects will improve the physical, social or economic well-being of marginalized peoples. The contributors to this volume argue that to accurately and appropriately describe TEK, the historical and political forces that have shaped it, as well as people's day-to-day engage |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnoecology.
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Conservation of natural resources.
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Sustainable development.
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Environmental education.
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Conservation of Natural Resources
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sustainable development.
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Conservation of natural resources
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Environmental education
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Ethnoecology
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Sustainable development
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781845459048 |
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1845459040 |
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