Culture and the Changing Environment
Author | : Michael J. Casimir |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781845456832 |
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Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected. However, these different perspectives only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. In bringing together a variety of views and theoretical approaches , these especially commissioned essays prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible.