Title Nature across cultures : views of nature and the environment in non-western cultures / editor, Helaine Selin ; advisory editor, Arne Kalland

Published Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 481 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Science across cultures ; v. 4 Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science Contents Environmentalism and images of the other / Arne Kalland -- The global mobilization of environmental concepts: re-thinking the Western/Non-Western divide / Michael Dove [and others] -- Variation and uniformity in the construction of biological knowledge across cultures / Roy Ellen -- Local understandings of the land: traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous knowledge / Roy C. Dudgeon and Fikret Berkes -- Landscape, nature, and culture: a diachronic model of human-nature adaptations / Richard Stoffle, Rebecca Toupal, and Nieves Zedenõ -- Worldviews and ecology / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- The spirit(s) of conservation in Buddhist Thailand / Susan M. Darlington -- Indian perspectives on naturalism / D.P. Chattopadhyaya -- Japanese views of nature and the environment / John A. Tucker -- Winds, waters, and earth energies: fengshui and awareness of place / Graham Parkes -- The perception of nature and the environment in Sub-Saharan Africa / John Kesby -- Both sides of the beach: knowledges of nature in Oceania / Edvard Hviding -- Native views of the environment in Amazonia / William Baleé -- Central Andean views of nature and the environment / David L. Browman -- "Nature doesn't come as clean as we can think it": Dene, Inuit, scientists, nature and environment in the Canadian North / Ellen Bielawski -- We are the land: Native American views of nature / Annie L. Booth -- Buddhist views of nature and the environment / Leslie Sponsel and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel -- Confucian views of nature / John Berthrong -- Daoism and nature / James Miller -- Hindu views of nature and the environment / Harold Coward -- Nature and culture: an Islamic perspective / S. Parvez Manzoor -- Judaism, Israel, and natural resources: models and practices / Jeanne Kay Guelke Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Human ecology -- Cross-cultural studies Philosophy of nature -- Cross-cultural studies Indigenous peoples Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Environmental protection. environmental protection. Environmental protection Human ecology Indigenous peoples Nature -- Effect of human beings on Philosophy of nature Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book Author Selin, Helaine, 1946- Kalland, Arne. ISBN 9789401701495 9401701490

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