Coping with changing environments: social dimensions of endangered ecosystems in the developing world
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Endangered Ecosystems and Coping Strategies Towards a conceptualization of environmental change in the developin...
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| Format: | Conference Paper Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Routledge
2018
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| Series: | Routledge Revivals Ser
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Aggregator, Volltext: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5622574
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Beate Lohnert, Helmut Geist |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Endangered Ecosystems and Coping Strategies Towards a conceptualization of environmental change in the developing world -- 2 Coping with Vulnerability and Unsustainability The case of Nepalese upland farmers -- 3 Hydropower, Rice Farmers and the State The case of deforestation in Laos -- 4 Debating Vulnerability, Environment and Housing The case of rural-urban migrants in Cape Town, South Africa -- 5 Soil Mining and Societal Responses The case of tobacco in eastern Miombo highlands -- 6 Changes of Land Use and Institutions in Natural Resource Management The case of the Tanzanian Maasailand -- 7 Drought Hazards and Threatened Livelihoods Environmental perceptions in Botswana -- 8 Environmental Conservation, Land Tenure and Migration The case of the Atlantic rainforest in southeast Brazil -- 9 Why Herd Animals Die Environmental perception and cultural risk management in the Andes -- 10 Risks and Coping Strategies of a Vulnerable Group in the Dominican Dry Forest The case of charcoal burners in Chalona -- 11 Actors, Structures and Environments A comparative and transdisciplinary view on regional case studies of global environmental change -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subject Matters |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9780429873256 |