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  • Japanese Whaling?

    End of an Era

    de Arne Kalland, Brian Moeran ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    This book gives a social anthropological account of whaling culture in Japan. When originally published this was the first comprehensive account in English of the history of Japanese whaling, showing how it has given rise to a particular culture. The volume discusses what happens when that culture is threatened. At the same time as explaining the work organization of those involved in whaling, the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Asian Perceptions of Nature

    A Critical Approach

    de Ole Bruun, Arne Kalland ...
    This highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Environmental Movements in Asia

    de Arne Kalland, Gerard Persoon ...
    Series series NIAS Man and Nature in Asia
    This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation in Asia, backing it up with several case studies. Two major points are made in this general picture. The first is that environmental campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus; they react to very concrete problems in the immediate neighbourhood and as such usually people are engaged in a cause for practical rather than ... Leer más

    $103.99 USD

  • Shingu

    A Study of a Japanese Fishing Community

    de Arne Kalland ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    From being an important centre which attracted a large number of merchants during the feudal period, Shingū, on the northern shores of Kyushu is today a suburb of Fukuoka City. Fishing is a slowly-dying occupation and this volume analyses how the fishermen adjust to changing circumstances. Although Japan is the largest fishing nation in the world, when originally published this book was the first ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Unveiling the Whale

    Discourses on Whales and Whaling

    de Arne Kalland ...
    Series Libro 12 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This book, the first of its kind, is therefore not about whales and whaling per se but about how people ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

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  • Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

    Between Local and Global

    Edición de John Connell, Eric Waddell ...
    Series series Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
    This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment ... Leer más

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  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edición de Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes ...
    Series series Studies in Environmental Anthropology
    The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Living with Transition in Laos

    Market Intergration in Southeast Asia

    de Jonathan Rigg ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Laos - the Lao People's Democratic Republic - is one of the least understood and studied countries of Asia. Its development trajectory is also one of the most interesting, as it moves from state, or perhaps more appropriately subsistence, to market. Based on extensive original research, this book assesses how economic transition and marketisation are being translated into progress (or not) at the ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Southeast Asia

    The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development

    de Jonathan Rigg ...
    The growth economies of Southeast Asia are presented by the World Bank and others as exemplars of development - 'miracle' economies to be emulated. How did the region attain such status? Are the 'other' countries of Southeast Asia able to achieve such a rapid growth?This book charts the development of Southeast Asia, examining the economies of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma alongside the ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Small-Scale Fisheries, and Blue Justice

    Fishscapes and Alternative Worldviews

    de Sunil Santha ...
    Series series Indigenous and Environmental Social Work
    This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean region. It specifically explores the impact of climate change on Fish and Fishers, and the mutual entanglements in their eco-social world. Further, it critically examines the nature of climate change adaptation and its implications on small-scale fisheries.Both ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Nature, Environment and Society

    Conservation, Governance and Transformation in India

    de Nicolas Lainé ...
    The future of humanity lies uncertain as nature falls prey to the loot and plunder initiated in the name of development, growth and progress today. As the vast riches of the earth continue to be endangered, a global consciousness regarding the importance of natural resources, biodiversity, etc. is on the rise. Given such a scenario, what is required is further understanding of man’s interaction ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    de Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Leer más

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